September 4 Lack of Water

Today was a rest day and also served the purpose of delaying us getting to Skyline Drive until after the holiday. It also afforded us the opportunity to spend some time talking with loved ones. We passed a sign for a church right before we got to our hotel yesterday, so we walked there this morning.  The message was from Exodus and about how the Israelites didn't trust God when they were in the wilderness and didn't have water, in spite of the miracles they had seen God do during the previous 6 weeks.  The pastor used an example of the necessity of water from when they went car camping and didn't have available water at a primitive campground and had to drive somewhere to get some.  That led us to think about how we have carried extra water in case a pump was not working at a campground, as   a 10 mile drive in car is pretty simple  but it is much more involved if get somewhere on foot or on a bike and do not have water.   There were about 35 or so at worship, but what was nice is about 1/3 were kids.   A member of the congregation that we met today spent 5 weeks  in a coma early this year because of covid. He was similar in age to us and at one time worked on nuclear subs.