Here We Go!

We have been packing the camper all day!  Tomorrow we head out on the grand adventure!  A month in a mini-van and a pop-up camper with two adults and three teenage girls traveling around our beautiful country will certainly produce lots of memories.

The day hasn’t gone exactly as we expected…but does it ever?  You just have to persevere and roll with it!  Hopefully that is what we will do for the next month.

I was running yesterday morning.  It was overcast and even threatened to rain but never did. At one point the clouds cleared ever so slightly and allowed a ray of light to shine through.  You know what it looks like – a beam of light coming down from the heavens – like an angel is coming down or like something very special is about to happen in the place where that light beam is hitting the ground.  In all the gloomy, cloudy, sky, just that tiny clearing allowed enough light to get through to change the scene, change my perspective, and change my focus.

That is the choice we have each and every day…to reflect a little bit of light and love through the smallest of openings so that we might bring a little more hope, possibility, and promise into the world and into the lives of those around us.  I say reflect because I don’t think we are the source of that.  God is.  And the more in tune we are with God’s purposes in the world, I think, the better we are able to reflect God’s light and love.

I hope that on this Sabbatical Journey I will be able to connect in a deeper way with the one who created us in love and calls us to journey in faith through this gift of a life.  I am so excited…I hope I can sleep tonight!  Here we go!