Barcelona, Istanbul, Selcuk & Greece...

So, travels continue.

We have graduated just over a week ago from a program that gave the opprotunity to change lives, if one let God do such a thing. And, now, we are venturing out from our release in Jerusalem - some to the East, some to the West, some to the North, and just two to the South.

Travels over the past week have brought me (along with other Y'ers) to Barcelona to view the Sagrade Familia, to Istanbul to continue further planning for Greece and to view the Hagia Sophia, and on to Selcuk to witness the incredible place that was once Ephesus (the place to which Paul writes of in the book of Ephesians).

Now, tomorrow, it is time to head off to the Greek Islands - Samos to be specific. Our first venture into this place that is yet unknown to myself or my fellow traveling partners.

We shared a nice dinner after a full day of touring and a night roughly spent traveling on a bus from Istanbul. We continue to remark how blessed we are to have such an opprotunity as this - to travel, to experinece, to learn, to enjoy. God has provided us such opprotunity that we can only be humbled by the breadth and depth of what we have experinenced recently and over the past six months. It carries a responsibily as well, I would venture to say - a responsbility that is, as of yet, not fully known, but unfolding.

I write not to say how I was able to do such and such, or experinece this or that. Rather to encourage you to do such, to put yourself out there with God and see what results, to broaden your view of this small, yet geographically large, world. Why write if no one reads it or why speak if no one hears?