Day 7 - The Voyage Home
In the morning, our group leader took a vote: "do we eat breakfast first, and then hit the road, or do we hit the road and eat breakfast somewhere on the way?" The vote was taken to hit the road first, and find breakfast food on the way. We took off like a flash, and headed for Tennessee. We would stop for breakfast somewhere on the way. As we drove through Alabama, morning sun light began to burn off the thick fog in the lower-lying areas. When we reached the Alabama-Tennessee border, most of the fog was gone. North of Nashville, we pulled into a McDonalds and enjoyed another chance to hang out while we ate breakfast.
But we stayed on schedule also, breezing along the interstates on New Year's Day 2007. On the way home, one of the wannabe muckers said that even though he hadn't been in a team involved in mucking and gutting a house, he had enjoyed the trip. That was good to hear, because I had thought the same thing. Most of the trip home, we listened to music that the group leader had ripped to his laptop's hard drive on the Windows Media Player. We stopped in Kentucky for refueling and bathroom breaks, and then hit the road again. As the afternoon wore on into evening, we crossed back into Ohio and reached Columbus at about 6:00pm. We formed a circle for a final prayer, and afterward, said our goodbyes.
Dad drove me home, and I got to enjoy a belated 2006 Christmas with the family at the end of the long trip.
2 comments:
I love the way you wright. My name is Elise and I live in Nowray. I have allways felt there were more to life than what we see and touch. There may be a God, but how would we know?
I am an Agnostic.
I think there is something, but I just don't know...
Thank you for the comment Elise!
What plans do you have for the future? What do you plan to do tomorrow? You believe that tomorrow will come, but you don't know that it does until you wake up.
Believing in God is like believing in tomorrow. People make plans for what they will do tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, we call it "today" and we do the things that we planned.
Our plans become a thing of the past: what we believed in (our plans) become real things.
Architects and engineers plan to build buildings. Then construction workers read those plans and build those buildings. What used to be a plan (what we believed) becomes something we can see.
Believing in God is like believing in tomorrow, or in construction plans. As time moves on, I am supposed to learn more. The things I used to believe become things that I know. The things I used to believe build up into things that are real.
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