Time and Space

Phoenix, AZ is a beautiful place as one comes in over the mountains and sees the vast city in the valley. However, one is reminded of the way we are polluting the environment when you can see the pollution ring at the horizon. Landing there brings a new set of experiences in this great city.

We leave in a couple of days to go to Phoenix, as I stated in my last post. We leave Kansas at 3:25 p.m. and arrive in Arizona at 3:50 p.m. Not bad, huh, for such a long trip. But wait! Did I mention that there's a two hour time difference between here and there? I guess not, but well, there is. So we will get to change our watches, and our body clocks! That's the hard part. I can change my watch in just a few seconds, but it takes my body clock several days to get adjusted to that kind of change. And by the way, how does Arizona get by with not changing their clocks twice a year like we have to? Why do we need to do that anyway? Whatever happened to "God's time?" Oh well, adjust we must, and we will.

We like the sunrises and sets here in Kansas, but this one from Arizona isn't too bad is it? One usually thinks of it being hot in Arizona and that's true a lot of the time. Right now though they say its the monsoon season there, and it's been raining and a bit cooler, even with thunder and lightning. So Kansas is not the only place where it does that? I hope the rain continues until we get there, but then it gets muggy and hot again, so take your pick - Kansas or Arizona in the summer. As we know here it can get quite hot, and windy.

Whatever the weather, or the environment, we will enjoy being with our family while we are there. Our kids run their own business and are doing quite well. Check it out at here. It keeps them both very busy but that's what businesses do, isn't it? But being their own bosses gives them freedom sometimes to take off for personal things, like picking up your parents at the airport and taking them back. And taking them to the doctor, etc. We appreciate all that and thank them much. We'll see their girls too, but much less frequently since one teaches school, one is in college, and one in high school. We love our family, here and elsewhere, and pray God's best for each of them.

So its off to the southwest soon, and hopefully it will be a good time for us. We are praying for God's leading and His blessing of healing and hope.

Pilgrim on the way