In something like nine-and-a-half hours my flight takes off for Mexico. I am excited. I am scared. I am humanly unprepared. I feel guilty, anxious, and hungry. I am not eloquent today and haven't been lately. I have been reading Blue Like Jazz, which is sometimes beautiful and not as annoying as anticipated. Everything feels unresolved. Which I guess is perfect.

I have been thinking about this, and I promise I'm not just saying this as a plug:

"I went thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean and then realized that people are just the same, all over the world. They believe in the same things, they live for the same giant concept. I think everyone has these micro-themes that they live for, but...I thought, 'Wow. Billions of people in the world are all people living under God and people still believe in the same big thing.' It really opened my eyes. It was very inspiring, to know that people feel happiness and sadness all over the world. To actually realize that and see that firsthand is really cool."

--Isom Innis of Matt and Isom  (interview/myspace)

"What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light;
what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy
both soul and body in Gehenna.
Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin?
Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.
Even all the hairs of your head are counted.
So do not be afraid;
you are worth more than many sparrows."

--Matthew 10:27-31 (NAB)