Upon returning home...

I’ve been out on a trail ride this week through the beautiful mountain of southern Colorado. My dad did not get to make the trip this year. Hopefully, Padre will rejoin the group next September.

On this ride I get to talk with men whom I consider to have become good friends of mine. Most of them call Colorado home, but they are from all walks of life. As we ride, eat, and talk each day we share what is going on in our families. We also talk about the joys and concerns we have with respect to our work, our nation, and our world.

While this ride astride good mounts takes us through fields and forest with awesome vistas, we know there are challenges in this world as well as challenges with our mounts. It’s a “slice of heaven”, some might say, but it’s only a slice. Horses get riled up, they’re irritated with one another from time to time and they are irritated by the girth. This can happen with the Roof Top Riders, too.

That’s what brought to mind a quote from C. S. Lewis: “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” We definitely are made for another world - a world which our sin has not tainted as it has this one. Thankfully, we have been remade for that world in our baptism - a world which our Savior, Christ Jesus, purchased with His blood shed on the cross. A world He will usher in upon His triumphant return.

Until then, a ride on the “Roof Top” of the world, a return to a loving family, and gathering with God’s people on the Lord’s Day will have to do. And it most certainly will!