Sundown Motel

This last Sunday my beautiful bride and I took a road trip from south Texas to north Georgia. After 1,100 miles and 20 hours on the road and too much caffeine, we finally arrived to our destination. Thank goodness for cruise control and podcasts. For a long time growing up I wanted to just stay put and never have to go on any trips. But after living that way for a few years made me realize how much I do like being on the road. It has been good to be on the road these past 5 years. There is something cleansing to me about getting on the road. Arriving and leaving from places that I have been to for the first time or multiple times never gets old. There is always something that either I notice or someone else notices for the first time. There is something about being by yourself or when everyone is asleep with time to think. It is easy to drown out thoughts, concerns, fears, worries with music or conversation but I know that times when I feel the most at peace is when my spirit is in communion with God's spirit. I can't explain that beyond the fact that for me mental, spiritual and even emotional rest comes when I push all my junk to the side and allow my world to grow beyond myself. It is too easy to allow everything to be about me. In the quiet, others come into my mind, thinking on the ways my life has been given so much that is undeserved, memories good and bad are able to come in unhindered by my self-centeredness.



Now that Sarah is with me on most trips, it is good to share in memories of different journey's. When she isn't with me it is comforting to know she is waiting on me, missing me, wanting to hear all about the trip. In this new season of my life only God knows what awaits us. I hope the travels will never stop, that new memories will build, new territory will be embarked upon.

Grace to all...................