On the road again …
April 5, 2008
Well, I’ve spent a couple of days making my way from Atlanta, GA to Manhattan, KS … driving by way of Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri. Total road time was about 14 hours. Some folks, I suppose, would think that a waste of time, an unnecessary burden, too much trouble, and anything but fun. They would be wrong!
I stopped all along the way — to get gas for the car, to have a bite to eat, to grab some coffee (after which I had to stop at the rest areas) — and all along the way, then, I met folks, all kinds of folks, and just got to spend a little time with people I didn’t know until the moment our ways crossed. I hope it was helpful for them; it was very, very good for me! The regularity of everyday life can, if we’re not careful (and we’re often not), breed complacency in us, and we get settled and comfortable and “at home” in the world, forgetting the mission we’ve been given to the world.
Let me recommend that you get on the road again as soon as possible!
The other thing travelling will do is set right the skewed picture we get from the media of people in the world. By and large, we (generally) have become afraid of our shadows, when the reality is that no one is waiting around the corner to hold you at gunpoint or to throw you in the trunk and demand a ransom from your family, etc. People, by and large, are just like you and me. Going from one place to the next with families and hurts and joys in their everyday lives doing everyday things. So we can talk to strangers without being afraid……..
ps - Spencer (or anyone else reading this): If you really want to travel come to Bolivia with us. Lots of work to be done for the kingdom down there!