Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Had a nice run through the streets of Dodge City this morning. It’s one of our least favorite places for a plethora of reasons, but it’s where Ceecee’s Mom and Step-Dad live and close to my daughter as well. We’ve hardly worked out or trained at all recently, so we decided we better do some running while we’re here.
Dodge City was where we lived when my spiritual decline really began. We only moved there because we felt that God was calling us to. We went through a painful church split and a number of other things that caused a lot of bitterness for me. We were victims of numerous property crimes, had some falling out with people we had been close to, and got into financial difficulties with two houses that we owned.
Although it was wrong to do so, I blamed God and began to shut down. I started shutting off my emotions toward Ceecee as well, although I didn’t entirely realize it. We finally left and moved to Missouri as kind of a plea to be allowed to go and try to start over somewhere else.
This afternoon, we went walking downtown and through the old neighborhood. We reminisced and romanced and it was wonderful to be in a place where we had gone through so much frustration and pain, but now had overcome it and were in such a different place, both literally and emotionally. We had endured everything that had come against us and come out of it more in love and better people than we had been before.
The Restoration Tour 