The Tale of Saddle Cat
So The past 3 days have been
filled with the excitement and thrill of travel (SARCASM)…. I know
what you are all thinking, “well you better get use to it”, but I
can be honestly say that it hasn’t been that bad… It has led me to
see some interesting things though. A fun fact about me is I love to
people watch. I’m not sure why but there is just something about
seeing how unique individuals are and trying to figure out their life
by the way they portray themselves that is intriguing to me. Ok, ok,
call me “creeper” if you want but don’t act like you are
innocent when it comes to the art of people watching. There are a
number of good watering holes to that we People Watchers like to go
and do what we do, the mall, Barnes and Noble, Starbucks, a city
park, but we all know the Superbowl of people watching takes place at
the airport. There has never been a place where you will see more
diversity in one spot. Different cultures and colors blended together
in a melting pot of “get the heck out of my way, I’m about to miss
my flight”…. Ahhh, the beauty of it all.
So early Thursday morning,
David Howard was kind enough to make the trek and drop me off at the
airport in Nashville. Waiting there in my terminal I couldn’t help
but think about all that I was about to embark on. As my mind races I
hear the phone ring and am instantly brought back to reality, it was
Elizabeth, my teammate that I was flying with down to Miami for the
night. We sat there and caught up on the past two and a half months
since training camp and before we knew it we we boarding our flight.
Our flight was pretty empty so we were able to ditch the idea of
assigned seating and sit next to each other, though upon this
decision I gave away a valuable fly tool… The window… The window
is by far the most amazing part of the airplane, not only is it a
portal to the land 30,000 ft below, it is an idea place to rest your
head. Anyways, it was a worthy sacrifice to spend time with a friend.
Next on our itinerary was a
nice two hour layover in Charlotte, N.C. As we sat there making our
last few connections to the world on Facebook a familiar face strolls
by us… Our team mate Katie also flew out of Nashville, an hour
after us, but we all had the same flight to Miami. After our short
lived reunion it was time to eat. Me and Elizabeth were starving so
we decided to walk up the terminal to find a bite while Katie stayed
behind and watched over our stuff. After make the amazing choice of a
Quiznos Chicken Carbonera sub we headed back to get ready to board
Honestly I can’t remember what our conversation was about… All I
know is that we both stopped talking at the exact same time and just
stared. I wanted it to be a mirage, but I knew it wasn’t. As much as
I wanted my eyes to be lying to me I knew they weren’t. There was a
lady in front of us carrying a Pet Taxi and in side was a cat. This
cat wasn’t wearing a hat. It wasn’t in a boat, digging a moat, or on
a float. This cat was wearing a saddle…
Our conversation went as
follows, “You see the cat don’t you?”, “Yep.”, “It’s
wearing a saddle, isn’t it?” , “Yep.” That was all we could
say… Why on earth a cat would need a saddle, I don’t know. What I do know is the look on Cowboy Kitty said it all.
So some of you are wondering
what is the point of this blog, quite frankly I just thought this was
random and funny. I guess it is a good update for you all to know
that I haven’t lost me since of humor even though it is starting to
hit me how hard this trip will be. In a few hours we will be heading
away from our launch location and to our World Race home base where
my team along with 2 or 3 others will be staying, we will leave from
there daily to go to our different ministry sites. So don’t worry all
you people out there who are wanting the stories of lives changed,
people healed, demons cast out, and the dead raised (yeah, I said
it). They will becoming soon.
Until then,
Joel
