Hosive

we headed down to dc in the snow and freeze the weekend obamania hit the md/va/beltway region…the beltway, a circular highway is the primary means of getting from a to b for most washingtonians. because of the influx of millions, people were told not to use the beltway at all. also bridges and tunnels would be closed. if you do the math, they were telling you to stay home. for natives, this must have been a drag. or a snow day without the snow.

for most outsiders, the energy was electric with change, change, change everywhere……

but we weren’t in town for barack. we had another kind of change to celebrate. i got to do the wedding for a student i’ve known for a long long time. he practically grew up in the home that i rented a room in for many, many years when i was a youth pastor in md. there’s a special joy in doing these kinds of weddings and it was a grand old reunion with many of easten’s friends and classmates….many who came to my wedding when i invited them off the cuff…

having students attend my college and subsequently making friends with their friends extended my wheaton experience in an unexpected way. it was like getting a second and third college experience. a blessing i received with joy and humility. in theory, i could attend every reunion on campus from here on out and reconnect with dear dear people.

so you can have your inaguration and freeze out in the cold waiting to be part of history. i had a grand old time in the shadow of the hype and the hope. we had our own history, hype and hope…and we kept warm the whole time.