Monday, June 9, 2008

Another candidate for "God's country"

Sometimes it’s hard to believe I get to do this job. I’m writing this post from a ferry in the Puget Sound, going from a Perspectives class last night to my final Perspectives class of the spring tonight.


This part of the U.S. is unbelievable. I'm a hazard driving around, my head swinging back and forth as I try to drink in all the beauty. I can’t figure out why we don’t all live here. Sure it’s remote. Sure there’s a little bit of the weirdness that comes with living on a island (no, offense, Marti and Nanette). But God is at work here: Three healthy Perspectives classes and lots of people wondering how they can make their lives count for God’s purposes, how they can lovingly and respectfully invite others to follow Jesus.



It makes me happy to join in.

3 comments:

Marti said...

Ah, delightful. Nice to see you blogging. And glad you get to spend time in God's country ; - ) Enjoy the NW. Even the (so-called) weirdness of island life and islanders... I remember when my grandpa, who rarely left Indiana, came to visit our island. ("I don't need to go there, I've read about it in National Geographic" he was wont to say about the places the rest of us traveled to.) He loved driving around looking at the fields but the ferry, the encroaching feeling of the rain forest, the rocky cliffs of the Oregon coast, were not so much to his liking. Made him nervous. Probably didn't help that we took him to places like Devil's Crag, Devil's Cauldron, and Devil's Elbow (We Northwesterners have a wicked sense of humor.)

paulmerrill said...

Sounds like a fun place to visit.

Welcome back to blogging!!

Barb said...

All that looking around... ya could've hit a turtle. ;-)
dm