Road Trip: Conclusion

Saturday night had a "white" pizza, basically cheese and bread, with my host family. Sunday we went to their worship service. Just about everyone was my age or older. They were nice people but one wonders what the future of the group is. Had a "Sunday School" talk on faith, and the message was based on Ephesians 1:13-17. Both were well done, clear, accurate and helpful. Afterwards departed on the final leg of my journey. Connected with I-84 and headed east. The Hudson River had ice floes but was not frozen solid as before. To cross the bridge I paid $1.50, the only toll of my journey. The Hudson seems wider than the Mississippi at this point, which seems odd because the latter was in flood, and drains everything from the Appalachians to the Rockies. Entered New England, and immediately the traffic intensified. The western states are larger in area and the vehicles more spread out. In New England one is always surrounded by cars. Worked through Hartford, and finally north into Massachusetts. I had been away twenty-four days, traveled through fifteen states, some more than once, attended five church services, driven 3,805 miles (6,137 kilometers), gotten sick, and returned to the same frigid conditions that I had left. Most of the country was experiencing the arrival of spring but the death grip of winter prevailed at home. When i arose at 7AM on Monday it was 14F, and 16F at the same time Tuesday. Some snow had melted but there was still a thick covering in the woods around the house. While it had rained about half the days of my journey, I had experienced several days in the low 70's. Does anyone in their right mind live here? Pondering the sad decline of the meaning of words in our society. Increasingly people are more concerned about the way in which things are said as opposed to the actual words. ( tone). Yet Jesus identifies Himself as the "Word" of God ( John 1:1). The reason Peter gives not to leave Jesus is that He has the "words" of eternal life. ( John 6:68)We are more concerned with feelings, and non verbal communication. Paul charges Timothy to "preach the Word." "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn aside from the truth and wander off into myths." ( 2 Timothy 4:2a, 3,4 ESV)