I’ve been waiting a few days to process all I experienced on our family vacation out West. I decided to write a few blogs and share the pics that go with my thoughts.

I had flown over parts of the West, and once visited my sister’s family in Grand Junction, CO, a more desert type of landscape. However, I had never experienced in person the majority of the landscapes we were in while on our trip.

One land feature in particular has stuck in my mine, with an old hymn that came back to me while driving from Salt Lake City to Nampa, ID.  Tablelands....how clearly they are defined out there. 

I’ll share a few pictures below that might give you an idea, albeit a poor representation of what it’s like in person. The song that came to mind is Higher Ground, and though it specifically speaks of Heaven’s Tableland, all in all, I think it was the theme of my soul for our trek across the mountains and valleys of these great Northwestern states, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Wyoming.

Higher Ground

I’m pressing on the upward way

New heights I’m gaining every day

Still praying as I’m onward bound

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground

Lord, lift me up and let me stand

By faith, on Heaven’s tableland

A higher plane than I have found

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground

My heart has no desire to stay

Where doubts arise and fears dismay

Though some may dwell where those abound

My prayer, my aim, is higher ground

Lord, lift me up and let me stand

By faith, on Heaven’s tableland

A higher plane than I have found

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground

I want to live above the world

Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled

For faith has caught the joyful sound

The song of saints on higher ground

Lord, lift me up and let me stand

By faith, on Heaven’s tableland

A higher plane than I have found

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground

I want to scale the utmost height

And catch a gleam of glory bright

But still I’ll pray, ’till heaven I’ve found

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground