The point of traveling is not
—R. S. Thomas
to arrive but to return home
laden with pollen you shall work up
into honey the mind feeds on.
I will write only briefly tonight. It is late, and it’s been a long day, and I need time to regroup before resuming “normal” life in the morning.
We made it! We have completed the circle and are now back in Versailles. I’m sitting on my own bed to write, rather than in some hotel room. We’ve unpacked the car and showered off the dust of the road. We now are faced with a mountain of mail, an overgrown yard, and weeks worth of laundry. I need to think how to approach the coming days. I don’t want to lose the lessons of the road, but I need some time and space to articulate them and to decide how best to put them into practice.
A few nuggets on which I want to nibble in the coming days:
- Simple is easier and, usually, best.
- I really don’t need as much as I think I do.
- God’s creation is amazing and worth stewarding well.
- God’s human creation is even more amazing, endlessly fascinating, and worth loving well.
- God is present everywhere and can be trusted at all times.
There are so many more lessons from the road! I’ll be unpacking the subject for weeks to come, I’m sure. But this is a start.
Now, to live into what I’ve learned…