Ian and I visited Dallas and Fort Worth to stay with friends and visit churches to talk about our upcoming missionary work in Peru. Staying with families has been a joy. As one new friend suggested, each home is its own little microcosm. I could extrapolate that and include all the story elements: setting, characters, theme and dare I say plot? I am the observer, but also one of the characters who comes into the scene, altering the usual flow of events.We talk about our lives, enjoy wonderful meals together, and discover connections. Our conversations wander about topics as diverse as irony, writing a novel, C.S. Lewis' furniture, guns, our children, the Church, Neiman-Marcus (it is Dallas!), good and evil. One topic was a discussion of the book, The Shack--read it!
We were thrilled to find out that Bishop Bill Godfrey and his wife Judith were in Dallas, too, so we met them for lunch along with Susan Kerr (on staff with Christ Church, Plano). They were visiting Christ Church, Plano, and were on their way to England and Spain for speaking engagements. Our last connection had been in Wisconsin last October where the bishop was speaking at Nashotah House.
Our travels have included so many serendipitous meetings of Christian friends we have known from our past and present. Ian refers to them as "Divine Appointments."
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