Macon is the second biggest city in Georgia behind Atlanta. I went to a school in Atlanta that pulls a lot of kids from the Atlanta area. I remember my freshman year one of my teachers was talking about Homer’s The Odyssey and was saying about Odysseus that he had been all over the world he said “…like beyond Macon even”. I thought that was a great line.
It’s funny how anywhere we haven’t been always seems to become some sort of far-off land. If it’s beyond our experience we can’t imagine that place or those people being anything like us or our home.
Tonight was my first night working back at the Domino’s in good ol’ Lake Mary, FL after working at the Domino’s in Buckhead Atlanta for three years. Most of the employees I work with here are people who haven’t really left Central Florida their whole life. One guy in particular was full of questions about what Atlanta was like. Most people asking about a far-off city ask first what grocery stores are there. He thought Kroger sounded funny.
I am so very excited to go to lots of far-off places I’ve never visited before. I am even more excited to know far-off people in such a way that they aren’t so far-off or different anymore. We were all created by the same powerful, loving Father God. I can’t wait for that nugget of truth to go from an intellectual understanding to a relational one.
Pray that as we find people who may at first seem very different, that we would be constantly reminded that we are all in dire need of the loving care from the Father who created us.
