Love and Conviction on The Way
Easter 5A | Acts 7:55-60, John 14:1-14
A year ago in January, I was driving down to Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, to a retreat center where I was attending a writing residency, and the weather was temperate, then cold and my car’s tires were acting up like they do when the temperature changes. The car’s sensor kept going off telling me I had low tire pressure and I’d check and top it off and it would go away. So I was nervous about driving so far, that maybe there was something actually wrong and I’d be stuck.
I also felt comfortable – ish about the drive itself. They had all of that flooding the year before, which had done so much damage, washing out roads and whole communities. Parts of US 74 near Asheville were washed away. It was devastating. The whole east side of North Carolina was affected and traveling there was sketchy. People were being routed well around the area, adding hours to travel times. But Google Maps was assuring me that it had found a fair way through that wasn’t bad, only adding about an hour to my trip, rather than the three hours others were reporting.
So I set out on my journey southeast. And around Indy, the tire pressure signal went off. It ended up being nothing, but it put a pall on the whole trip.
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