THE JOURNEY SO FAR

Originally posted July 4, 2006

We’ve put on a couple thousand miles in the last week and a half. I’ve had fun doing things I remember from growing up like going to a small, old fashioned barber shop to get a hair cut and eating out at diners instead of fast food places. It was fun looking for diners that had heavy concentrations of pick-up trucks. The best food in town usually attracts them.

We stayed for a weekend with Ruth’s sister and brother in law who pastors a country church in Missouri. We had a potluck supper to die for after morning service and an ice cream social that evening (home made peach or vanilla with some kind of magic potion called home made hot chocolate fudge topping that probably is a derivative of turkish delight.)

We watch the 18 wheelers and Harley’s drive by under flags bigger than some villages I’ve lived in. And there are enough fireworks in the road-side stands between Birmingham and Denver to flatten the Rockies.

I know the world has changed and that much of the world has given up on absolutes and timeless truths. But out here on the plains of mid America, there are still folks that know their neighbors, that have eaten the same blue plate special at the same cafe for the past 25 years, and who trust God for different things than I do in my life in Europe. But trust him they do.

And as they do God blesses.

Durand

PS. For more travel photos, click here.