Mountain Spring
Oasis by Robert Wise | Acrylic on Canvas
During the wintertime, I return to the South where the snow seldom falls and the cold isn’t really all that cold. In Colorado at our home up there high up in the mountains, it can reach -20 in the worst of winter. Nevertheless, I stay fascinated by hikes through the high mountains where the summer springs feed what becomes the creeks below.
Somewhere I got hooked on fishing for trout and became a fly fisherman. Hiking up above timberline, I was always looking for a lost lake filled with fish that had never been caught. What I failed to realize was that fish just don’t get up that high. Nevertheless, I learned that you can still dream for what’s not probable, but what might be in waiting just over the hill. Oh well, it the fish aren’t there, the flowers are.
Robert L. Wise went to college for art and is an archbishop in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches and director of the Office of Ecumenical Relations. He has been awarded the title of Apostolic Representative for Christian Unity by Pope Francis. In addition to his work in ecumenism, Wise is the author of over thirty-four books and many articles published in several languages. Wise also publishes under the pseudonyms Spencer E. Moses and Ed Moses.
