Top 10 List

WONDERFUL presentation at Adult Ed this morning; if I do say so myself!

Andy and Glenn created a terrific video about reservation life, with voices of some of our friends on Rosebud as narrators. Very effective and moving.

Due to time constraints, our Lutheran 'sister', Sylvia, didn't get to read her "Top 10 list of things to learn on a Mission trip", so I'll share it with you now - - unedited and unabridged!

(Insert your own drum rolls before each item!)

Top 10 things to be learned from a Mission trip:

10. South Dakota is very far away.

9. Sitting in a van for 15+ hours with Episcopalians isn't nearly as painful as "they" say.

8. How to drywall, how to install storm doors, how to hammer the nail and not your thumb - and, my favorite, how to use power tools.

7. Episcopalians will do anything for chocolate.

6. The reservation is an incredibly beautiful and spiritual place.

5. Learn to walk, albeit only for a moment, in a Native Americans shoes.

4. Your life, regardless of its struggles and challenges, is so very blessed in comparison.

3. Learn, or re-learn, life without telephones, cell phones, television, watches and multi-tasking - except for Donna.

2. Sharing this experience will give you friends for life.

and the Top 1 thing to learn on a Mission trip -

1. God does lead us, with love, to love: all we have to do is follow.