Silent Sentinels
I planned my first road trip of 2019 for what turned out to be the weekend of the last snow storm of 2019. The forecasts sounded ominous but it looked like I could avoid the worst of it as I headed north. The snow and rain turned out to be pretty spotty and not all that heavy at all. This photo was taken on highway 56 along a ridge west of Viroqua.
First stop of the morning was Fennimore to prayer walk the Southwest Tech campus as part of InterVarsity’s #everycampus campaign.
My brother Ben pastored the Grant County Christian Center on this corner in Fennimore for a number of years, and it’s now a historic building. A museum in fact.
Second stop was a historic building in Viroqua: former public high school and then junior high school and now home to the Youth Initiative High School. A half century ago Youth for Christ meetings were held in the auditorium of this school and on one Saturday night in 1967 I decided I was going to follow Jesus. As Bob Dylan would put it a decade or so later, “Ya Gotta Serve Somebody,” and I answered Jesus’ call. Most important and best decision of my life.
Down along the Mississippi River the storms clouded the view across the river but yet there were still a few men out in boats fishing on this chilly day.
I arrive in the Twin Cities with time to spare before the annual meeting of the board of the Institute for Biblical Archaeology so I stopped in at the Walker Art Museum sculpture garden to visit a few of their iconic sculptures.
Probably the most iconic of them all, although the cross on top of a steeple (in the background) is also pretty iconic.
On the trip back, smooth sailing until about 45 minutes out of Madison and I started to notice the snow. But it’s all gone a day later and spring can now get underway in full force (I hope).
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