A field trip to remember
As the memories of our airport experience on the way home are fading, I am smiling at the memories of our visit to Spain. What an incredible visit to an incredible country. We learned more than I can begin to tell. How perfectly our trip fit in with our study this year of the middle ages. What a field trip! Here are a few things I learned on our trip:
God is big... Really BIG
We have been given an incredible creation!
People everywhere regardless of nationality want to be loved.
Friendship is one of the greatest gifts God gives.
It is great to have people you can count on. (Thank you Victor and Jennifer for picking us up and transporting us and to Nicolas and Lucia for being at the airport when we arrived in Spain - just on the other side of customs)
Here are a few of my favorite memories:
Experiencing "church" in the mountains of Asturias, Spain with our friends and companions on this trip.
Visiting a 9th century cathedral and seeing the dedication to the Trinity.
Sitting on the beach, as time stood still, watching 9 children and 3 adults have the time of their life - catching crabs, shrimp and playing in the waves and sand.
Hiking to the top of a very high mountain in Asturias to a natural lake with a breathtaking view.
Hiking to the top of another high mountain in another part of Asturias looking out over the world (another incredible view). Experiencing a party on top of the mountain including sack races and an incredible picnic!
Every evening returning to our incredible getaway in the mountains of Asturias with a chill in the air and the moon peaking out just above the mountains.
posted by Jill at 2:57 PM
2 Comments:
I could voice the same sentiments exactly, and in addition to all this I got this amazing sense of time stretching. It's not just the absence of the hurried microwaveness of our American society that I'm talking about either. It's the value of aging, which does wonders not only for cheese and wine but also truth. I just want to add for a long time to everything you wrote.
God is big...really BIG for a really long time.
We have been given an incredible creation for a really long time!
People everywhere regardless of nationality want to be loved for a really long time.
Friendship is one of the greatest gifts God gives for a really long time.
It is great to have people you can count on for a really long time.
And of all my favorite memories on the trip I would have a hard time topping 4 Catholic and 3 Protestant kids joining up to act out Jesus' story of the Good Samaritan with all their hearts as one American dad tried to keep from crying as he read the closing words, "'Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?' The expert in the law replied, 'The one who had mercy on him.' Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise.'"
I've been thinking about grabbing that cofee...You know what, It's people like you guys that make me look forward to heaven. Hope they have bottomless cofee. But you never know...we always joke about going to Texas. Well if you ever venture to PA, you are more than welcome to coffee at my place. You guys are really so cool.
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