last weekend when we were at camp lake sitting on the dock looking out into the lake to watch the sun set, david sighed and said, "this is how a city man keeps his sanity."

"not on the interstate in the middle of heavy traffic?" the person sitting next to me asked.

"oh, i suppose we can discover the peace of Christ in any situation, but being here does something for me soul," david responded.

last night after about a two hour discussion about life, death, heaven, hell, faith, doubt, religion, knowledge, truth...with one of the apprentices who is not a Christian but grew up in a Christian home, i walked to my room, sat, and remembered david's comment. i think i understood what he meant because at that moment i longed to be back on the dock watching evening come like the herring on the water.