Day 43, Friday, October 19, 2007
God was so gracious to me the very first thing this morning. I was in the little store while Ben was checking us our of the campground and getting ice for the morning. I picked up a pretty soap dish that I was considering buying and it slipped out of my hand and broke. I brought it to the cahsier and offered to pay for it but she said "Oh no, that's pefectly okay -- no need to pay for it since it's broken." and she took it from me. How kind she was!
Most of today was taken up with driving once again -- today we reached Abileen Texas. Texas is a BIG state! It is taking us a long time to get across it. We are still trying to connect with Ian and Christina but no success so far. We changed our plans several days back and decided not to drive to Colorado Springs because Ian and Christina are leaving there and are on their way to Mexico for a couple of days. So glad we did change our plans because Colorado Springs has snow, ice and rain now -- chains are required for all vehicles. How unsafe that would have been.
Let's see . . Papaw told us an encouraging story when we visited him and Mamaw. He said that the church he fellowships with -- I think it was called Cornerstone Baptist Church -- began to fly not only the American flag and the Texas flag but also the Israeli flag. Since the Bible does speak a lot about Israel and the Jewish people being God's chosen nation/people -- they wanted to identify with/promote that Bibical idea. One day though someone burned their Israeli flag. This prompted all kinds of national and international media and the church was thus able to explain/expand on their position to an ever-widening circle of people. One person called and told them he would love to send them another Israeli flag, and yet another if the first one he sends gets burned.
We have seen so many eagles on our return trip. I don't remember seeing any or hardly any on the northern route travelling East, but all the way West we have seen them flying -- every single day. They are so majestic -- easy to spot with a wing span of up to six feet and also they hardly ever flap their wings but rather ride on the wind currents.
We have seen many trucks that have the words "Covenant Transport" on them. Every single one has the message: "It's not a choice, it's a child." I don't know about Arizona and New Mexico but so far on our trip across the southern states God seems to be very present in the culture here. Of course it's hard to make a very realistic judgment like that when we are only driving through and stopping at restaurants here and there. But what I have observed is that there are huge billboards with signs like: "Need a marriage counsellor? I'm available. God" and another that said "It's Me -- God" and yet another: "Tell the kids I love them. God" and similar ones all along the way. Yesterday we stopped for lunch at a restaurant called Cracker Barrell. The food was absolutly delicious and when the waitress gave us the bill she wrote "Have a blessed day."
We are working hard on eating dinner by 6 or 6:30 and it is definitely helping Ben's blood sugar. There for a long while seems like we were eating at 8 or 9pm and this always caused Ben's morning blood sugar level to be very high. So as a result he is feeling much better. Thank you for your prayers for him. Driving on the Interstate is not very easy at all. Yesterday Ben needed to move one lane right to make an exit and this trucker absolutely would not let him in until the last second. It's kind of unnerving sometimes to me to be sandwiched between two huge, loud, fast trucks!
Just by way of reminder if any of you have missed any days or just want to go back and re-read a certain day -- Benjamin created a wonderful blog where all our daily entries are: Benandsuesroadtrip@blogspot.com. Thank you so much Benjamin and Megan for doing that for us!
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