Before Going Dark - 7/20/2018

So here’s what’s up ahead. At the briefing meeting, a guide advised us that we should be prepared to puke. Often. The pressure inside the body is greater than outside near the summit. It’s only when you see blood that you have to worry. I think this is just to get our heads around it. Thousands hike this every year and very few die from it. I think I made the most dangerous journey already:driving to JFK!

But it’s good to know what you’re in for. Not very different from joining a community of faith, er, Well, not that puking is an appropriate metaphor. But I like to tell visitors about what to expect at Holy Spirit. Joy, inspiration, and most of all: Jesus. We hope everyone gets Jesus. But that also means service and sacrifice in ways that gain us nothing. Climbing a mountain is like that: all it gets me is maybe a bloody t-shirt is all. But, like being part of a community and serving as Jesus to others, it might get us meaning and identity.

Jesus is what’s up ahead.

​While I’m hanging I’ll write and send stuff as I’m about to go dark for seven days.