Wow. It's so crazy actually being on Summer Project--something I've been planning for and thinking about for months.
Getting to Vail was interesting.
(Friday) Travel should have started Friday morning at 12:01am but the bus from Louisville to Indianapolis was more than two hours late getting to Louisville. Left Louisville at 2:20, and got to Indianapolis at 4:30am. Train from Indianapolis to Chicago. By the way, Amtrak is definitely nicer than Greyhound. Way nicer. However, I was more than a little disappointed when no one yelled, "All aboard!" Also, there was neither a Platform 9 3/4 nor snack cart with Bertiebots Every flavor beans.
Anyways, in Chicago, I had a four hour layover and I didn't want to sit in the station the whole time. I checked in my suitcase and walked around in Chicago for a while, to the Sears tower and Millennium Park. My train left Chicago at 3pm and we spent all day and all night on the move.
(Saturday) When the sun rose, we were in Kansas/eastern Colorado. Flat and Boring. But as we moved west, at the horizon's edge appeared the small gray silhouette of mountains. We arrived in Denver. Those mountains now loomed there, just outside the city. On the bus from Denver to Vail, we entered those mountains at last. The next stop was Vail and the people in the seats behind me were talking about how beautiful Vail is. We headed down a hill, around a curve, into a valley and there ahead is Vail. And chyea, it is beautiful. Nice job God. I took another bus to get to from Vail Village (downtown) to our housing. I got off the bus and there were other Summer Project-ers, arriving too.
The project staff had a cookout for us all and we started to get to know each other through that and a scavenger hunt. All those Facebook names and little pictures are real people now. People I'll live and have community with for the next nine weeks. Already we're growing closer. It's amazing to see how God is working for us and through us.
But this is a long post, so I'll cut it off here. More soon.
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Man, loved reading that. Stuff you'll remember forever. It's a good thing you're writing it down. Mountains and the gospel and glory and adventure. You were made for it.
ReplyDelete- Daniel
You have no idea how happy your puns have made me! I'm really glad to hear the trip went relatively smoothly and that you have already started building relationships with other followers of Christ. It's amazing how the Spirit unifies complete strangers... "There is hope in one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call - one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and in all and through all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift." - Ephesians 4:4-6. Praying for you every day, brother! Keep the faith, persevere, and bring glory to God!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement!
ReplyDeleteAlso, plenty more puns to come.