This weekend, Sandi and I took a quick little camping trip — our first of the summer — to the north Oregon coast to Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria. We escaped Babylon for some physical and spiritual rest and recuperation.

I was feeling very weary from working long hours during an unusually arduous and hot summer. Needed physical and spiritual refreshment. The fall  biblical feasts are just around the corner, and it’s important to reconnect with Eloihim in a special way. He is the source of inspiration for my teachings, and I needed his help and divine revelation, so I can give his people some fresh manna for the upcoming feasts. I give him the praise that he answered my prayers in this regard during our mini-vacation.

Often I take prayer walks into nature where I sense YHVH’s Presence as I seek his face and attempt to reconnect to him in a special way.

Here are some photos I took during my prayer walks this weekend early on Shabbat morning:

Shabbat morning as the sun is shining through a forest of giant, moss-covered sitka spruces.

The sun shining through the trees.

A phalanx of alder trees.

A meadow where the elk graze.

The color of the sunlight becomes more orange as the sun gets higher in the sky.

I snuck up on an elk grazing in the meadow. You can see him in the shadows at the top center of the photo.

Worship and praise at our campsite.