Today has tested everyone's patience. It seemed like any other day, waking up to a delicious breakfast of coffee, muffins, oatmeal, toast and jam, or sausage and egg muffins. We took the shuttle from the Marriott hotel and arrived at the O'Hare airport in Chicago, IL, promptly at 8:45 am only to find out that our flight was canceled due to freezing rain in Washington DC. We did our best to stay busy by playing cards, singing to guitar and harmonica playing (by Karsten and Pastor Mike), reading, or simply walking back and forth on the automatic walkways(or as Madame would call it in French, "tapis roulant"). It was clear looking around that our hurried tempo of life had been put on hold and everyone was getting very antsy.
I hear patience is a virtue, and it seems by looking around that this virtue is hard to come by. Our flight takes off for DC at 1 pm and the next time we talk, we will be in Rome.
Ciao!
About Me
- Tour de Italy/France
- Rome, Assisi, Lyon, Taizé, & Paris, Europe
- In exploring the international communities of Assisi and Taizé and the stories of Saints Francis and Clara of Assisi and Brother Roger of Taizé. As students, we will be challenged to recognize the potential violence and polarization that underlie unexamined patterns of consumption, individualism, and nationalism.
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