On the road again is what I will be very soon. I just completed a whirlwind trip to Massachusetts for my last visit before I head home, and will make another stop in New Hampshire before the final push south, but I am heading home. The picture was taken when Marsha and I first went to Myrtle Beach after the closing on our new home. You can see the U-Haul that helped to carry furniture to fill most of the rooms with temporary vacation cottage kind of stuff. I like to travel. I even love to drive, and it doesn't matter if it is a leisurely country road or a packed highway. I think we get very settled in our places and travel can expand our vision. I have to admit that I will feel very comfortable in my own chair in front of my own TV and back in my own routine, but I'm not sure that is what is intended for us. Often I think of Jesus as he travelled light. No extras for him only the simplest necessities. I think we surround ourselves with so much that we become uncomfortable without it even in the short run. We even have a phrase for some of those things. Now you might debate what fits in this category but you probably will agree the category does exist. It is called the necessary evils. Now how can evil be necessary? They can include gigantic things like the hydrogen bomb, or mundane things like a TV or computer, but we are surrounded by necessary evils. We don't travel light anymore. I look at what I have to repack in order to go home and I am certain I don't travel light. Believe me I have more that two tunics with me, and have more than a couple of buck in my purse. Perhaps we can never go back to the simpler life, and maybe we are not meant to, but I'm not sure we should brag about it either.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Travel Light
On the road again is what I will be very soon. I just completed a whirlwind trip to Massachusetts for my last visit before I head home, and will make another stop in New Hampshire before the final push south, but I am heading home. The picture was taken when Marsha and I first went to Myrtle Beach after the closing on our new home. You can see the U-Haul that helped to carry furniture to fill most of the rooms with temporary vacation cottage kind of stuff. I like to travel. I even love to drive, and it doesn't matter if it is a leisurely country road or a packed highway. I think we get very settled in our places and travel can expand our vision. I have to admit that I will feel very comfortable in my own chair in front of my own TV and back in my own routine, but I'm not sure that is what is intended for us. Often I think of Jesus as he travelled light. No extras for him only the simplest necessities. I think we surround ourselves with so much that we become uncomfortable without it even in the short run. We even have a phrase for some of those things. Now you might debate what fits in this category but you probably will agree the category does exist. It is called the necessary evils. Now how can evil be necessary? They can include gigantic things like the hydrogen bomb, or mundane things like a TV or computer, but we are surrounded by necessary evils. We don't travel light anymore. I look at what I have to repack in order to go home and I am certain I don't travel light. Believe me I have more that two tunics with me, and have more than a couple of buck in my purse. Perhaps we can never go back to the simpler life, and maybe we are not meant to, but I'm not sure we should brag about it either.
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