SET final words

Without a doubt I definitely enjoyed this vacation.

Let's get this straight, great high calorie food, my own schedule, my cell phone off, my love and best friend at my side What's not to like about that?

Even without all the great food and interesting locations I would have enjoyed this time just eating a twig and sleeping under a plastic tarp because I enjoy any time that I get to spend with EAT.

I personally think that the term "Soul Mate" is somewhat trite and a very overused term because people will say "He is my soul mate" one month and then say "we have grown apart" the next. If you have really found your soul mate it is a final a permanent pairing (like mashed potatoes to gravy, pancakes to syrup, Zinfandel to cheddar, gravy to Chicken Fry, OK I'll stop now) that always works and will carry you into the next life. If you find your true soul mate(like I have) everything, the good times and bad times, seems to make sense and is comfortable in this life but is targeted at eternity rather than just at the selfish pursuits of today that by nature we tend to want to chase. Both EAT and I share a firm commitment to the FACT that Jesus Christ had paid the price for all our sins and because of that we are accepted into the kingdom of heaven.We are justified and have the freedom to experience things such as our vacation without guilt.

Because of our mutual commitment to the reality that we are forgiven through Christ EAT and I are forever and joyfully bound to enjoy this life together with the direction of continually striving towards achieving sanctification through serving Christ our lord.

How is touring the DDD serving Christ you ask? Well any work we do with the intent of serving God is a work unto the lord. That is a basic tenet of the reformation and it remains true today. You don't have to be a priest to serve God. Whatever your daily work, it is a service unto the Lord. God is sovereign in all things and I can tell you that most of the places that we visited are clearly works of devotion whether they admit it or not. When approached with the proper purpose of serving God, devotion to one's work is service to God. Being a fast order cook is not a particularly glamorous job and I'll bet very few of these people actually aspired to be a cook they probably just ended up in the job. But I learned something about being content in whatever you do by watching these cooks spending their days realizing the same menu day after day but with care and excellence. And with that basic pursuit of excellence in their work achieving a level of fame and notoriety. Watching these people at work during our DDD tour made me realize that we all should, and can, be content with just going about the perhaps simple work that we have before us with the solid intent of serving God with our work and doing the best that we can. With that action we will be serving the Lord day by day. Your daily work is a work unto the Lord as much carrying the banners down the isle during Easter service. And with that thought and we can achieve some contentment in life just by doing our job well.

And perhaps eating some fried food here and there.

Would I do a DDD tour again? ABSOLUTELY! What would I change? Like EAT I would Limit our DDD exposure to one or at the max two restaurants a day. Just to be kind to our gastrointestinal tracts.

But for now I think our next adventure will possibly be "FoodiesGoFasting". Purely out of a need to repair the damage done to our bodies over the past week.

EAT tells me that our scale shows that she only gained one pound over the course of this trip... I have got to replace the batteries in that scale!

SET