Hills…
… and other things I rarely see.
Real hills, where sledding takes place and breathing increases as you trudge to the crest. We just don’t have those kind of hills in Pensacola and they are in abundance in Northern Idaho. It is as though the earth hunched its shoulders and they got stuck that way, just like its mother said they would.
I am in Moscow, Idaho, visiting New Saint Andrews College, going to church at Trinity Presbyterian, and seeing folks we have never met yet wanted to for awhile. Providence has directed that our hotel reservations suffer a loss, namely the middle two nights of our stay were deleted out of the hotel’s system. So, we are staying with the Atwood family. We are most grateful for their hospitality and praise God for their love of strangers. And we are stranger than most.
I will pass along what I thought about the college some other time, but the vision for a whole community of Christians living in the world, yet not of the world, has been something wonderful to see. I like it… a lot.
We also got to have dinner with Josh Gibbs and his lovely wife Paula. Josh writes at TheCedarRoom, which will make its way to the blogroll eventually I’m sure. They cooked us a wonderful dish of chicken and potatoes with a baked zucchini that was very tasty. The best part of the night though was putting a face and voice with the scribblings of an anonymous blogger.
We attended church on at Trinity Reformed Church on Sunday. The Atwoods and the Gibbs both attend there. It was a blessing to be around the Saints of God, singing psalms we have never sung, singing the Lord’s Prayer and passing the peace. I now know what it is like for visitors to come into our church on Sunday mornings. It can be pleasantly unsettling.
Tonight, we will be visiting with Dale Courtney who writes the RightMind blog. His site is already linked on the right under worldview and gives you a little insight into life in N. Idaho. He has seven college students living with his family so our dinner should be very interesting.
This whole trip has been eye opening for us. This is what a Christian Community should look like. I recommend a visit if you get the time.
al sends
