I am still capable of thoughts!

Today is the May 24th, four days since my last blog. We have been outrunning stormy weather once again. On Monday we left Miami, OK around 5:30 p.m. because of the threat of rain...we traveled to Salina,KS....it was one of the best rides of the whole trip....fair weather, no wind and we found a wonderful hotel and good espresso the following morning...the next day we found ourselves riding through very fierce wind and finally arriving in North Platt, Nebraska in a good hotel with a "tornado watch" interupting the TV station at about 10 minute intervals...the tornado finally touched down about 80 miles from us in Ord....then we left Nebrasks and found our way through more wind than I can adequately describe in route to Laramie, Wyoming....we stopped in Pine Bluffs and found the church my Dad pastored when I was in 4th grade, the old brick school I went to was torn down a few years back. Eleanor Johnson, my teacher, taught for many years after we moved away from Pine Bluffs. The people were very friendly and informative; then on to Cheyenne where we spent three hours in a Harley Davidson Shop buying a communication system...the hotel in Laramie was the best yet...we left Laramie this morning after stopping at the Harley Shop (owned by the same people as the Cheyenne store) to return the communication system which failed to work. We are back to yelling at each other over the wind. Through wind and thunder storm we found our way to Lander, Wyoming where we had a great dinner prepared at the Oxbow Restaurant. One small event today...we ran out of gas and had to push the bike about 1 mile to a gas station....it is a long ways between stations in Wyoming. We bought a little orange gas can that will hold 1 and 1/2 gallons of gasoline...better than pushing a loaded bike I can assure you. Our daughter friend says we are too old and too tired not to enjoy life...so we decided to protect our hearts from over exertion. As we have spent the last four days in what I would describe as arduous travel...I have reflected on the knowledge that God does not want our spiritual journey to be hard and laborious....HE says HIS yoke is easy and HIS burden is light. An easy yoke is a yoke that does not gall or rub a blister on us. HIS burden is light...it is not cumbersome or heavy, not a chore to bear. I would like to have those easy light characteristics spill over into our natural travel for the next several days...we are heading for Yellowstone tomorrow where we will be staying in Grant Village with a booked Circle of Fire tour on Saturday. It is a 9 hour bus tour around Yellowstone and takes in Old Faithful...we are currently traveling in weather that is about 50 in the daytime and down into the 30's at night, can I say I am glad I left the liner in my leather jacket and brought my long underwear. We had a delay today that left us thanking God for HIS protection even in things we do not understand. Follow Christ with all your heart and enjoy the journey with the perfect partner...ONE who promises the load will be light and the harness of the spirit will be comfortable. Jesus is still the sweetest name I know. More in a few days!