Our weekend in Madison demonstrated what it is like to be serviced. We received a fanfare greeting with waves and waves of follow up supplies that filled our bellies and met our physical needs of our bikes and sleeping accommodations. They attended to entertainment needs as well as our escape from camp routines.
Many families rushed in to provide meals in restaurants and sleeping accommodations in real beds without normal camp life distractions. With the cooler weather and sunshine it all appeared as a day of significant rest despite the fact we frantically got caught up with our blogging as Internet access became high speed in the church Wi-Fi bubble. Praise the Lord!
Just imagine soda from a self serve fountain and snacks laying around to consume as bike and camp gear is re-organized (again) getting ready for the new week's ride.
Just a brief note about lifestyle. As we ride with the same group of people over many weeks our minds map characteristics of each rider and we begin to believe this is our life and future lifestyle. It is somewhat disturbing to think how abruptly this will end and yet it sort of reflects on the potential how fragile our lives are anyways.
Maybe we could reflect and act in tangible ways how it is we stay so overwhelmed in our personal lifestyles often at the expense of others as we rush past them.
This past seven weeks demonstrates to all of us just what it takes to catch our own attention let alone the attention of others concerning poverty lifestyles. In some respects how do we end our own poverty lifestyle?
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