Another week has gone by. It felt like a few hours. I really can’t say that I know where the week
went.
I don’t know what to say
about this week. I miss America – more than that: Americana.
I want to walk around in
corn and tobacco fields. I want to move
in with Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams.
I want to go to a baseball
game, in Baltimore, on the harbor – listen to bats crack and buy a beer for
seventeen dollars and fifty cents. (Send my regards to Barry Bonds and Roger
Clemens. They look good in suits.)
I want to drive an old
Chevrolet through New Jersey, make some friends in a diner over some snapper
soup, drive to Strathmere Beach, and light a fire somewhere in the
sand – Springsteen blaring in the background.
I want to sit at Lincoln’s
feet next to the Potomac, sometime after midnight – once the tour groups in
matching T-Shirts are long gone and tucked in at the District Motel 6.
But I’m glad I’m here. Something tells me that the minute I checked
all of those things off the list and paid a few of you a visit – I’d be aching
for this place far more than I ache for America right now.
That’s a scary thought with only
two months left here…
a few photos from the week –
This is James. or Pietey Boy.
This is Christo.
This is Simon. Car guard extraordinaire, self proclaimed N.W.A. – wikipedia the term if you’d like.
Matt, we miss you….I miss you…..I have had you in my thoughts and prayers….and know that you are doing good in God’s Name. Cameron and Cathryn and I went and visited Papa Allen and Ausilee and Ben yesterday after we left church. It was so good to see Ben….and Papa was about the same as when we saw him last at the hospital. Love you so much….Aunt Myra.
Matt, Sounds like you are missing home. Remember that your time there is precious and to make every moment count.
don’t worry matt, that’s how everyone feels when they go abroad for winter term. except their mass emails stop coming after a month…
Here are some tastes of home…the things I know you REALLY miss:
M&Ms and peanut butter,”yeah, mmm hmm, really?”, Sammy, Jamie’s, To End All Wars on the screen in the youth room, wingin’ it, shallow pockets, Philadelphia, Living and Breathing Gospel, “Thank you God for hope,” Chris Tomlin (admit it), sunblisters and delirium (and Deliriou5?)…and of course, Dress My Baby.
Let that encourage you, Matt Wour, and I hope that it will help to hold you over while God uses you to painfully and sacrificially love people into Christ’s arms. We’re praying for you, and for Jonathan, and for Leonard…
Hey man, just wanted to let you know I’ve been thinking about and praying for you a lot this last week. How is everything?? I hope things are going well, despite missing home… I miss you guys!