Day 7, 8, 9, 10

There's not much to say about days 7, 8 and 9. They were spent on the island resting up for the return trip. The island was beautiful. We got to lay out by the pool, swim in the Caribbean Sea and several of us went snorkeling on Saturday. On Sunday we had an 8:30 AM service on the balcony of the bar. I was little hesitant about getting up and going but since they asked me to preach I figured I ought to show up. It was a beautiful place for worship though and I was glad I went. It's kind of neat to worship together with all those other congregations. I know that we have diverse styles of worship when we're at our home congregations, but, as someone said at the devo the night before, when you're focusing on serving people you don't have time to quarrel about other issues.

There was not supposed a day 10 to this trip. Our flight was delayed 4 hours coming out of Belize and we missed our connection in Dallas. They booked us on the next flight which didn't leave until Monday morning. We arrived at our hotel about 1:00 AM and left at 4:30 AM. It was another long day of travel. A night in Miami on the way out and a night in Dallas on the way in. I officially spent 4 days in Belize and 4 days traveling. Don't you love the airlines!

Thanks for all the prayers on the trip. In a couple of days this blog will return to it's random ramblings. I read two good books on the trip...UnChristian and Bury by Heart at Wounded Knee. I'll have a few thoughts on those.