Between a rock and a hard place…………

I am leaving this morning for a long weekend in Nashville. I’m meeting with a customer today in Knoxville, and then another later today in Nashville. Tomorrow morning I have another meeting with a valued customer and friend and then will be setting up at Durys for a short four hour mini seminar I’m doing there all Saturday morning. Friday night I’m going to have the pleasure of dinner with one of my best friends, Don Nelson and his family in Nashville. Some of you, I’m sure, because I hear it all the time, are thinking wow what and exciting life. I have to admit that working for Nikon as a tech rep has it’s great moments. Truthfully everything about this trip will be pleasant. All these customers and friends will be great to spend time with. I’ll stay in a nice hotel, and have good meals. Only one problem, it’s not home. I try not to sound to much like Dorothy
in the Wizard of Oz, but, “There’s no place like home……”

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If someone seldom travels it looks exciting, if someone travels all the time, it looks like so many more days away from home. After a while you get use to this kind of life, but that doesn’t mean your heart is not back home. The trick is your head and your performance has to be where ever you’ve been sent.

I’m so very, very thankful to have my job, any job, I know there are those that are not so fortunate.
I’m not whining or crying, I just hate those first few hours when you have to break the bonds of home, and leave.

If I feel pain from the separation from home, imagine how excruciating Jesus’ pain must have been when He willingly was separated from His Father to die for our sins. I can’t even begin to imagine what that separation must have been like. I could never do enough to show my thankfulness for His act of supreme sacrifice.

This week when I went to Phil Fox’s funeral I was reminded, once again, what great gifts God has given us, and how important it is to show our thankfulness by honoring them, and the God who bestowed them on us.

a thankful man,

the pilgrim

*Photo Note: D7000 with 24-120.