Finally we are spending a whole day in one area and looking at the sights that are available to us. Today we will be touring 4 different places. Crazy Horse Memorial, Mammoth Site, Custer State Park, and Mount Rushmore. I'm really excited about Mount Rushmore!!!
This morning's devotion was on Isaiah 30:18....oh and I think Nick actually called his mother today. I was so proud of him
Nick's Take:
day 4.
finally we have a full day of site seeing. (we also got to sleep in for an extra hour). We left in the morning to go to crazy horse, which is a really cool yet unfinished carving of an Indian chief. we then had a nice catered lunch after which
we went to the mammoth site which i found very interesting! after that we drove throw Custer state park and saw various wild life including a herd of buffalo! for dinner we went to the most prestigious of our destinations, mount Rushmore!
devotions this morning talked about how God often make us wait. that can be a good thing though if you are of the mind set that the journey can be better then the destination.
p.s. if you have not heard of all those places don't worry i hadn't heard of them till this trip.
Robb's Take
Day 4 felt like the longest to me. I was really missing my cute little baby girl, and my wife as well. I don't think I started the morning off very well, and that might influence what you read here!
Today was the day for me. This was it...the thing I was super excited about I finally get to see. Mount Rushmore! How awesome is that?!?! I love history, and studying history and political history, so I was finally going to get to see these 4 great presidents faces in the side of a mountain! First we have to go to Crazy Horse, which I admit is a pretty impressive sight! the precision that cna occur with explosives is quite amazing, however I wondered if this was the best way to immortalize these original inhabitants of this great land. The Native American idea of living as one with the earth doesn't seem to be shown by blowing up a mountain side to carve a statue into it. After that we saw some interesting things, but then came Mount Rushmore! and to be perfectly honest...I was a little underwhelmed with it. Don't get me wrong, it's a sight to see, but maybe not a bucket list item as it was with me.
all this leads me to how I took this mornings devotion...I think the journey is an amazing ride! sometimes even better than the final destination. At least in this case it was for me!
On a different side of things, I want to ask a question. Do we as a group of believers need to keep up with the idea that the "devil" puts things in our way to keep us from doing good? Is this a thought that we should continue on with? I struggle with this idea everyday. I guess it all comes down to the famous saying "do bad things happen to good people?" I think in my faith journey that I have become more of an optimist. Trials and Tribulations aren't "bad" or "products of the devil" in my eyes, they are instead a chance to be sure that our original desires are still what we want. Bad things happen, but I choose to allow that to let the best come out. if this is our mentality and our way of handling what may be up ahead on our faith journey, then there is no bad...there can be no room for bad. If we don't allow room for Bad....then all we're left with is...good. Right?
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