Today was a strange day, we started the
morning with once again pulling up our roots and leaving the place we
have called home for the last week. We loaded up our tiny trailer and
hitched up chad-moe. (our semi-faithful van) From here we went to the
laundromat and got a little caught up on laundry, during this time we
also tried to be somewhat preventative about mechanical issues and
were as proactive as we could be about adding the fluids necessary to
poor ol' chad-moe. A few of the staff also did a brief shopping trip
while things were in the dryers.
Once all of the above were completed we
once again loaded up and rolled out to a house someplace in casper (I
still don't have a good mental picture of where we were any more than
that) where two supporters of camp had prepared lunch for the whole
staff. It was a delicious lunch and it was very good to see both of
them again.
After lunch, we started the trek out of
town and higher up the mountains to saratoga wyoming. It was somewhat
eventful as our poor van has issues with oveorheating when he's asked
to pull us and a trailer full of things up large hills without a
little bit of downhill to cool off. Turns out that's a fair bit of
the route through here. So every hour and a bit (or so it seemed) we
took a few minutes to let the van cool off and happily accepted the
opportunity to stretch our legs. Eventually we reached our
destination and set up camp in our new home. (an empty trailer home,
now packed to the gills with us and our stuff).
As we were driving out here I was
reminded of a road trip I took several years ago, from spearfish SD
to Pasadena CA. Being crazy and not really minding where I ended up I
just plugged pasadena into google maps, printed a thing off and
started driving. Well part of that route is the same highways that we
drove today. The even cooler part is that back when I was driving
this route before, God had really been reminding me that He is
faithful, He is powerful, and even though I often feel like i'm not
worth much... He cares about me and is willing and able to take care
of me.
One of the ways in which I was reminded
of the power of God was a section of road where you can see the
mountains rising around you on either side of the road but you're in
a valley, the last time I was here The mountains were getting rained
on and a thunderstorm was raging on top. But as I was driving I was
in sunlight and dry. It was slightly less visually impressive (still
fairly impressive though) but no less spiritually meaningful when
this time the valley was shrouded in shadow but the peaks of the
mountains were still in the sunlight. Even without the quick visual
it would have been pretty cool to re-walk an old pilgrimage in my
mind; combined with the new visual it was incredibly encouraging.
Prayer requests:
-That my cold (or whatever it is)
continues to subside and that I'm back to 100% by monday
-That the few missing staff members
would have safe travels and be re-united with us soon
-That we all can rest fully and in
every way this weekend. That we'd be renewed and ready to minister to
campers this coming week.
-That as we hit the halfway mark this
weekend and patience begins to wear thin, that we'd be gracious and
flexible to smooth what we have to do. (and that it would begin with
me)
This week is high school camp, we've
got a few days of non-typical schedule until then... but then we go
to table in the wilderness, and after that week it's on to denver for
a week. And after that we head back to rimrock for the tail end of
the summer.
Nick
p.s. Internet availability might be a
bit scarce this week but rest assured that I will continue to write
posts even if they aren't uploaded in a timely manner.
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