Once every year, my siblings and I take our Dad and Stepmom out for a day of fun. We do short trips around the area and sight-see, eat, and generally kick around and have a great time. We call it “Dad Day”.
A couple years ago, we drove all around the Palouse in southeast Washington State. We did a train ride in the northeast of the state. We’ve hiked up to the US/Canadian border and saw how the beautiful trees had been cut to make a clear line at the border. Last year we rode the gondolas up Silver Mountain in Idaho and picnicked at the top during the ski off season.
We’ve had some great times. We’ve built up treasured memories. We’ve learned a lot about our Dad’s life in some of these trips and our family history as well. I recommend it.
This year’s trip centered around Dry Falls in the Grand Coulee in Washington State.
We visited Grand Coulee Dam as well. The dam is a huge tourist attraction and I could write reams about it, but that might be another time.
We loved visiting Dry Falls. This is a remarkable story about a powerful river event in the life of the Pacific Northwest. (God’s Country for sure!) During the ice age, the Columbia River got diverted by an ice pack and when it broke, now non-existent Lake Missoula emptied out all over Washington State. It happened several times and carved out the coulees. We were told that if water were running over these cliffs now, it would be 100 times the size of Niagara Falls! Wow!
See my family posing on a huge outcrop of rock with the canyon below them!
Pictures don’t do it justice, but imagine the panorama as you stand and marvel.
Remember the God who made it all. The power represented here is mighty and awesome. But when compared to the stars and universe – might, awesome, powerful – all these take on a different meaning.
And different yet—He is our Father who knows each of us and longs to be known by us. Maybe with all the considering—a “Dad Day” might be in order?
“Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no helper…” Job 29:12.
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