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| Traveling Route 66 |
Anticipating a long road trip can be very exciting,
especially if we have never before visited our chosen destination. While traveling, it’s
important to keep our eyes open and take in all the sites or else we can easily
miss unbelievable landmarks. It’s easy to see the terrain in one area is very
different in another area.
Softly rolling hills that burst with patchwork colors from
local farms in the “Plains” states are a feast for the eyes! We get a sense of
exactly where our food is harvested and brought to our grocery stores. Lots of
water in both the northern Great Lakes region and in the constant “wetness” of
the Northwest keeps everything green with its own type of natural “irrigation”
system. If we are not into daily, massive humidity, the dry Southwest will be
our favorite places to park for a while. We have so many options and each one so different.
There is an infinite number of things to see in this
country and if we are beginning to plan summer vacations, we simply can’t go wrong by giving the “good
ole USA” a chance to amaze us. The best of the best sights are the out-of-the-way
places such as:
Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana is 50 miles from New Orleans
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| Rocky Mountain National Park |
Rocky Mountain National Park is 76 miles northwest of Denver, Colorado, and is the most visited national park in the U. S.
Plum Island, Massachusetts offers a secluded,
11-mile long sandy beach
National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is a great place to explore to
your heart’s content!
There are numerous other out-of-the-way sites just like these in every state in America! No sense
having to stick to the commonplace attraction for a vacation!
A
Blessed Nation
No, this isn’t an advertisement for great summer vacations. We
are just pointing out the vast landscape terrain that we, thankfully, live on and can enjoy
day in and day out. Land (or more exactly, soil) is where it all begins. We choose to build homes on it. Great cities have survived on it for decades. Bridges connect us. We construct beautiful roads to drive our candy-apple red 1956 Ford trucks, original VW Bugs, and shiny SUVs on. Farmers scatter the seed on fertile soil that produces good food for our
table. We are truly blessed!
Still, all this construction and growth is really
difficult to soak into our brains and understand. It’s always been there (or so we think), therefore, we
don’t even give it a single thought at times. Maybe some of our great-grandparents,
though, had stories to leave us telling of hard times building this country
from the ground up. Or maybe we’ve read about or seen documentaries of the 1930s
Dust Bowl or the Great Depression and the devastation they brought.
We suppose some people have no comprehension of the
birthing of the United States of America if they have not read or studied it. Maybe some do not
even believe most of the historical stories they hear. If it’s not on YouTube
or the latest website, it seems beyond their grasp. That is exactly the
importance of visiting our own national sites in person whenever we can. If we
don’t ever do that, it will remain a fictional mystery.
The
Beginning
There is one important book whose stories have also been
discredited from the very beginning ever since the invention of the printing
press (yet, it has never gone out of print!). It’s called God’s Word—or more
commonly, the Holy Bible.
It’s a biblical and true historical account of God’s
creation since the beginning of time itself. God’s own breath inspired every single
word found in its pages just to benefit
each one of us! Yet, we must ask ourselves, do we believe God? Do we
believe in God? Is his “seed” taking
root in our lives? Or is it just lying lifeless alongside the “road” we
travel?
“This is what the story means: The seed is God’s message [the
Holy Bible]. The seed that fell beside the road is like the people who hear
God’s teaching, but the devil comes and takes it away from them [doubt] so they
cannot believe it and be saved” (Luke 8:11-12 NCV).
