WOTD Glory

Glory

Thankyou Alice for this word today

When I first read this word, I thought immediately of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, with its words “Glory glory hallelujah.” I can hear it playing in my mind right now.

However, I am going to home in on this word as describing the wonder and splendour of the hills and fells in the English Lake District. I have written much about them before, but these memories are always there in my mind, and they can often revive me. Not that I will ever climb them again, but in my mind I might. The first time we ever visited that Lake District, I didn’t know what to expect. I knew there would of course be lakes, but I never thought of hills and fells. At least not ones that could be walked on. Or climbed. In time, however, the sheer beauty and glory of them was to be revealed. If you had told me as a child that one day I would be walking the hills I would not have beleived it. I hated walking. However, that was because I always walked up big hills with my mother or my grandmother and it was often on hot days, and I almost used to faint with the effort and the heat. So I was not exactly a candidate for hill walking.

There is something wondrous about things that are hidden behind something and that are mysterious. That is how I often think of the hills and fells and even mountains. It seems to make them even more attractive and alluring. They have a glory as yet to be revealed. We cannot even imagine it untul we see it.

I think my mind has wandered a bit with this word, but what a glorious wander.