Well it has been quite a while since my last post. I'm sure you all have been sitting on the edge of your seats, checking multiple times a day to hear a word from me. As for my Civic, because I had taken out the back seat (to make more room), it's trade in value dropped to $0. While at the impound lot, it also wracked up about $200 in fees, and I ended up just signing over the title to them. All in all it cost me about $100 to get rid of it. In addition the blame for the accident came down solely on me, so I have a ticket to pay and insurance gave me nothing (though they did cover damages to the other party). I bought a 96 Toyota Corolla, and though not quite the car I had in terms of power and gas mileage, I am thankful to God for His provision. All of this has severely dampened my plans, as I have $4000 less to live off of for the next four and half months, but am confident that I can manage. Perhaps I may even have to be frugal out of necessity rather than choice.
For the next couple of nights I will be staying with a family from the church I've been visiting here. I spent a night in my car while visiting Rocky Mountain National Park (a magnificent park and relatively unknown compared to some of the others), but the majority of the time has been spent at my friend Matt's apartment. I really don't even know how many nights I've spent at his place, but it has been several.
Today I again went flyfishing on the South Platte. After a couple hours without success, I again tied on a grasshopper pattern and began drift fishing it along the bank. About 20 yards upstream of where I caught my fish mentioned in my earlier post, I was again blessed. The fly was drifting through some rapids, at which point I lost sight of it in the foam, but saw a splash near where I knew it was. I took up the slack, hopeful, but unsure if the fish had taken my grasshopper. The line tightened but the fly stayed under. I was either hung or had one. I pulled on the line a bit more and felt movement, then saw the telltale silver flash of a fish fighting. I maintained my composure a bit better this time, and without a whole lot of difficulty, drug him on to the bank. It was a nice rainbow, probably 14+ inches (by far my biggest trout). Of course nothing goes without incident, and several times he wiggled out of my hands, but fortunately I hadn't removed the fly. When my buddy Ryan arrived with my camera to take a couple shots, I realized my 1 GB card was full. Eventually we got the pictures (which can be seen at www.myspace.com/weedyseadragon along with my RMNP pictures) and released the fish. Many would consider a day catching one fish pretty miserable, but I was quite happy.
I've been reading “The Salvation Controversy” a Catholic explanation of the differing views of salvation. I am just now to the author's explanation of TULIP and am anxious to see what problems he has with it. It has been very enlightening up to this point. It has cleared up a fair amount of confusion regarding terminology. I think Catholics have done a poor job of qualifying their statements, and Protestants have done a poor job in overreacting to Catholic terminology. I also just received “He Shall Have Dominion” in the mail and have read through the foreword. It comes highly recommended by Pastor Russ and is regarded as the definitive exposition of the post-mil position. I am anxious to delve into it, as I am very ignorant in my eschatology. It is a 500+ page book though, and I imagine will take me some time to finish it.
I am at last planning on leaving Denver, probably Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. I am somewhat reluctant to do so, as I have made several friends and have truly enjoyed my time here. I have not, however, met a girl enticing enough to keep me here, and so the lure of adventures in unseen mountains and the Pacific northwest pull me on.
My plan is to perhaps visit RMNP again, then to WY to see the Wind River Range, the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone.
Hope all of you all are well. I appreciate the comments, emails and correspondence I receive. I honestly really look forward to hearing from you.
2 comments:
Seth...
You are going to have what I call a "Yeah God!" moment when you get to Grand Teton. You can feel His magnificent there. One of my most memorable times of my life.
Hey Seth! Thank goodness for your friend Matt! Please tell him how appreciative and grateful we are that he has provided you a place to stay. We are doing pretty well here in the sweltering heat of Memphis. I hope things are cooler where you are since you are sleeping in your car. Jeremy has started back to school and Caleb is, well, into everything. I wish you could see him in the bath. He has this rock-climbing type move he does that I know you would appreciate and be impressed with (although I am sure most babies do it, I just happen to pay particular attention to Caleb since he's my son and I'm with him all the time!). Anyway, what he does is so funny because he'll stand up and hold onto the top edge of the tub with one hand while holding one of his bath toys in the other hand. He'll then let go of the top edge of the tub and reach up with that same hand to grab onto the soap bar that is a couple of inches above him while still holding the other toy in his hand. I think it is hilarious that he won't let the toy go so he can better support himself, but he has his own way of doing things, and so far it seems to be working for him. I wish I could get it on video. Take care of yourself and tell Mrs. Right when you met her that we've all been anxiously awaiting her arrival- what the heck has taken her so long? Love ya, Katie
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