We have been asked the same question more times than I can count over the last several weeks. Are you tired?
Do you even need to ask?
We were asked another question last week. One I wanted to laugh at, but I tried to keep a straight face. Do you fly home every weekend?
Seriously. Would we be driving around in this monstrous van with all this stuff if we were going to be flying back and forth every weekend? And how would the van get to the next city if we were flying home every weekend? Oh. My. Word.
As I have said before, this has been a grand adventure. But traveling from city to city, living out of suitcases, and being on the road for seven weeks is also tiring. So, since we had a couple of free days between Chicago and Columbus, we decided to take a little break. To take a pause and get refreshed.
We spent a few days at the end of last week semi-unplugged in the Amish country of northern Indiana. No particular schedule. Just roaming the back roads and small towns of this part of the country. Eating [too much] really good food. Exploring antique shops and quilt shops and gift shops. Enjoying a slower pace.
Over the weekend we spent a little time with one of Al's cousins and his wife who live here in this part of Ohio. Yesterday we worshiped by means of the internet with our church family at home, then we enjoyed a quiet afternoon just relaxing.
We all need that from time to time, don't we? A slower pace. Time to set the schedule aside. Time to relax. Our bodies need it. Our minds need it. Our spirits need it.
Time to rest. Time to be still. Time to be renewed. Time to be refreshed. That's what the last few days have been for us. Times of refreshing.
And now we are rested. Refreshed. Ready for the final four weeks of this journey.
It was good to have a few days of R and R.
And it's good to be back in "our" time zone again!
"You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest." (Exodus 34:21 NASB)
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