Imagine upon arriving in Bucharest, Romania you fall asleep in the warming room(not a typo… it is freezing) of the train station. You wake up and rattle off a classic dumb and dumber movie line to a group of middle aged Romanians, “So where ya headed? Flying somewhere?” You then realize that they haven’t seen Dumb and Dumber and you actually just look like an idiot. They repeatedly mock you by pretending they are flying airplanes or making airplane noises(yes they all were in there 50s or 60’s).
When traveling from Romania to Serbia you slept in a mall from 8:30-10:00pm, a bar from 2:30-4:15am(it was actually called a café and I thought I was going to get something resembling a grand slam breakfast but in reality they only served beer), and a train from 5:30-8:00am… I guess it could’ve been worse.
People confuse you for a homeless man because you use your friend’s coat as a blanket and another friend’s scarf to cover you face as you fall asleep next to a giant monument of a mounted horseman in Budapest, Hungary…. You don’t regret this act but you do regret not sleeping with your hand out so that somebody could give you money.
The best place to sleep is next to a heater in the girl’s room because your room is 40 degrees and you have 3 Serbian roommates who speak no English who are crashing with you for the night… it is impossible to figure out why they didn’t go home but the more the merrier I guess.
Today as I was finishing up this blog Matthew 11:28 kept coming to mind, “come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.” This from a man who isn’t necessarily a champion of rest… rest is something that God gives us and is modeled in the Bible. So, Are you finding rest?
