Mystery Machine

Disclaimer to those first reading my writings: I happen to write stream of consciousness so you have been fairly warned ;)

Up until this point our trip has been all about the van, which I have promptly named the Mystery Machine. We are about 12 hours into our trip and about 10 driving hours in leaving us a little less than a day until our destination. The crazy thing is the further in to our 33-hour drive the more excited and agreeable we have become and through it all I am loving just driving with 4 of my best friends. When we stopped for lunch I began to think about how this trip is about the things we will see but it is also largely about who we are with. It’s amazing to look over the last few years and to see how we went from barely knowing each other to brothers of Christ who are knit together in our hearts. It is amazing that we live together for about 9 or more months of the year but with this trip we are stripping away most everything but each other and learning to love and enjoy each other unlike how we do most of the year.

With all of this it makes me slightly sad that we Americans (can’t speak for any other country because well we are all Americans) spend most of our day with our “friends”, but if we were asked to speak at their funeral we would only be able to talk about their work or hobby and not much past that. I have been blessed with some amazing friends and family and the closeness and intimacy that we share is worth the world to me.

For those of you who don’t know I love fantasy books and so to draw a parallel to that, in many fantasy novels they talk about dragons hoarding things and being really protective of their treasure. Many times this is what we do with our lives and our past and as such we live our lives in our cave with our treasure alone. That is a sad and miserable life, so I challenge you today find some people to share yourself with and hold onto them and live life together. Your life will be so much more rewarding and full of life. The Church is the body of believers not a building where people go on Sundays, so believers out there start being the living Church and transform you life.

-Keegan

"Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."

-Ecclesiastes 4:12