journey

We leave New Zealand today..a beautiful land with progressive people...Australia too...never again will it be the other side of the world... I will always pick up a globe and hold it differently know...its simple spin and turn will be more familiar now....we come back with suitcase and hearts full of moments and memento's..
God is goodness and the goodness is there in the diversity of peoples we have met in the mingling of this journey, the ancient like palm Fern , massive pines and gums, the volcanic rocks, endless gifts of sea shells...the mountains, oceans; and creatures as incredible as whales and kiwis and wombats. We have been to sacred services that paused us into silence, caught our holiest imaginations, brought our tears to surface, dreamed of shalom and welcome;in grand Gothic architecture and classic organists... or pastors trying to keep the faith which is the love of God...today.. or with peace banners and Japanese choirs recalling Nagasaki,, and peace lanterns floating down the river.... We have tasted the thrill of pressing into our fears..and we have listened to ancient wisdoms... Maybe; what will be longest remembered are the times of being a family..walking, talking, eating..watching.. being....knowing this too will be rare and exotic as Nick and Sara more and more grow into busy lives..but to see them talk and laugh now in these we've had...gift...gift...gift...
God is so Good. A good journey always bring you back home..to a deeper home. It has been a good journey.


Tonight we fly back to the United States..
and this fromthe Upper Room. to close
WISDOM VIEWS the rising sun and the majestic silences of nature as daily messages from God. God is patient; God waits for us to get it right — or continues to work with us, despite our every error and lapse of conscience, in the sinews of every prayer and doctrinal attempt, every compassionate act, every encounter with stone and wind, every effort to read scripture and remember the Creator.

- Ray Waddle
Against the Grain

From p. 147 of Against the Grain: Unconventional Wisdom from Ecclesiastes by Ray Waddle. Copyright © 2003 by Ray Waddle

Rambling on, in many ways
"Good on you!"
Rory