Our travel from Ft Myers to Philadelphia (via Atlanta) was quite uneventful. Our group of 12 moved through the airports, baggage check, van rental and hour long drive to Trinity Ambler with no difficulty, like a group of veteran travelers.
We arrived at Trinity with mouths agape at the beautiful buildings and wide open grassy campus. The original church building burned down in the 80s, and the current building reflects the love of that older traditional space.
Fr Dave was here to welcome us, and after dinner he celebrated a special Eucharist for us since we had been traveling all day and not been able to have communion. The girls in our group picked a couple of songs out of our mission songbook. We sang Micah 6:8, Jesu Jesu, and You Are My All in All.
After the Eucharist, I read The Path of Peace by Henri Nouwen for our nightly meditation. It was longer by far than our meditations will be the rest of the week, and while it was about 45 minutes at the end of a long day, the story it tells of Adam and the peace he has that is 'not of this world', the peace we need to seek--the peace of the weak, the peace of the poor, the peace of the broken, the peace of simply being, not doing--it gave many of us a sense of direction for our next several days' work.
By this time it was almost dusk and many of us went outside to catch lightning bugs and explore the campus. There were some spooky stairs leading down to a basement . . . . perhaps the dwelling of some of the . . . . communion of saints? John? John?!
And now I have precisely 2 seconds before lights out, and I need to brush my teeth!
Peace,
Louis
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