Of all the gin joints in all the world

As I sit here in a smancy airport bar here in the Denver. I am contemplating my life returning to normal. I have spent roughly the first week of my marriage in the idealic snow-covered mountain village of Telluride Co. This last week has been almost surreal. Last night we took a gondola ride and watched on of the most incredible sunsets I have ever seen as the sun set behinds the cold and ghostly mountains. After that we had an incredible Thanksgiving dinner at La Marmmot, the smallest, most rustic little French restaurant you could imagine. Walking back to our condo on the other edge of town, the full moon cast a beautiful cold blue glow on the mountains that was beautiful and absolutely unreal, any actual description would never do it justice, it was just a magical night, truly an incredible way to end a most unreal trip.

We have spent the last week since our wedding in a house with no TV, no Internet access and no real radio to speak of, totally devoid of outside influences. Well we are off to catch our flight….. more later


It is very dark as we wing our way over the heartland. As we make our way back to reality I am contemplating what that will mean. Tonight will be the first night in Columbus when I will not have kiss Erica and go home. Even though we have been together all week in Telluride that still seems unreal somehow. It seems unreal that God has blessed me with the company of such an incredible person to travel the rest of my life with. Through her God has blessed and healed me in countless ways. And now I get to spend the rest of my life with her, God willing … unbelievable.

As I sit here staring out into the night from 40,000 ft, it occurs to me that God really is in the renovation business. When I first spiritually limped into the Vineyard 3 years ago I never dreamed that I would be sitting here in the belly of this flying metal beast returning from my honeymoon. I never dreamed that I would be sitting next to the most incredible person I would ever meet. Ask anyone who knew me then and they would confirm what an angry miserable person I was then. God has truly made me into a new person, and I praise him for it.