We will call it the Garden of the Gods.” It has been so-called ever since.īy the 1870s, the railroads had forged their way west, and in 1871, General William Jackson Palmer founded Colorado Springs. His companion, Rufus Cable, a “young and poetic man”, exclaimed, “Biergarten! Why it is a fit place for the Gods to assemble.
Beach suggested that it would be a “capital place for a Biergarten” when the country grew up. While exploring nearby locations, they came upon a beautiful area of sandstone formations. In August of 1859, two surveyors started out from Denver City to begin a townsite, soon to be called Colorado City. “Balanced Rock”, at the south end of the Park, was formed as erosive processes removed the softer layers near its base, eventually leaving the precarious-looking outcrop seen today. The resulting rocks are stood-up, pushed around, and slanted.
GODS OF SAND AND ROCKS SERIES
The multiple formations were then uplifted and slowly brought to the surface by a series of mountain-building events.
Massive sand dunes moved across the land, and shallow seas and deeper oceans encroached and retreated.Įach environment left behind gravel, sand, and ocean deposits that formed horizontal layers over millions of years. These rocks were created as ancient mountains eroded and were buried in their own sediments. The outstanding geological features of the park are the highly visible sedimentary rock formations. The ancient sea remains of mountain ranges, alluvial fans, sandy beaches, and sand dune fields can all be found in the rock. It all begins in the Pleistocene Ice Age, which resulted in the erosion and glaciation of the rock, creating the present rock formations. Like Jesus says, it is "a foolish man who built his house on sand." Who will you be today, will you be like the wise man and build your house on the rock of Jesus or like a foolish man and build it on the sand of the world? "But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord," Joshua 24:15.Long before Garden of The Gods was a park, geological features began to form. However, if we build our house (our life) on sand, like money or fame or drugs or any other thing that is not Christ Jesus, then our foundation is shaky and weak and when the storms of life inevitably come we will be lost and we will lose everything. When we build our house (our life) in Christ and on Christ then we are built on the rock and have a solid foundation to weather the storms that life will bring. Since we seek eternal life in the glory of God we need a good foundation which is Christ. When we build a house we want it to have a good and strong foundation because if it does not have a good foundation it will crumble and fall and we will lose everything.
I was reminded of this passage this week as we dealt with Hurricane Irene and the flooding and devastation that she brought. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell and great was its fall."-Matthew 7:24-27 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house of rock.
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