Today has been a wonderful day. This morning we ate cinnamon bread for breakfast and then we had devotions. We read Proverbs 29 and Psalms 136-140. The passage that stuck out to me the most was Psalms 139:23-24 "Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting". I think I'm going to make this verse one of my prayers. That I would continually surrender myself to Him and His way.
At 9am Naomi took me to Santa Fe (the capital of New Mexico) to do some touring. It was awesome! Everything was really beautiful! We went to a few catholic churches and admired their beauty. One thing that was quite surprising to me was that the catholic religion here was often mixed with the religion of the native americans and new age thinking. The catholics had just adopted it into their beliefs, so we got to see some of that. We also visited a few shops. All of which were WAY too expensive. Later we visited the Capitol building. It was nice to see how so much of the art in the building depicted the culture/religion of the state. There was a lot of art depicting native americans, hispanics, catholicism and native american religion. After the Capitol building, we went for lunch at Annapuna's. It serves Indian, Tai, and some Mexican food. I got a somosa with a side salad. It was very good. By the time we finished eating we thought we had better get home and help the others get ready for the evening.
At 3pm we all were going to go to Tous and have a picnic and see the gorge. So, when we got back, we cleaned out the van and helped pack dinner. It took us about an hour (I think) to get to our picnic spot near the stream. We took the High Road to Tous which goes over the mountains. I was really surprised, it was really green up there. Almost like the ADK. It turns out that we were up at about 8000 ft of elevation and the mountains around us were closer to 14,000. They make our ADK high peaks sound small. When we got to the picnic spot, we enjoyed a wonderful chicken
At 9am Naomi took me to Santa Fe (the capital of New Mexico) to do some touring. It was awesome! Everything was really beautiful! We went to a few catholic churches and admired their beauty. One thing that was quite surprising to me was that the catholic religion here was often mixed with the religion of the native americans and new age thinking. The catholics had just adopted it into their beliefs, so we got to see some of that. We also visited a few shops. All of which were WAY too expensive. Later we visited the Capitol building. It was nice to see how so much of the art in the building depicted the culture/religion of the state. There was a lot of art depicting native americans, hispanics, catholicism and native american religion. After the Capitol building, we went for lunch at Annapuna's. It serves Indian, Tai, and some Mexican food. I got a somosa with a side salad. It was very good. By the time we finished eating we thought we had better get home and help the others get ready for the evening.
At 3pm we all were going to go to Tous and have a picnic and see the gorge. So, when we got back, we cleaned out the van and helped pack dinner. It took us about an hour (I think) to get to our picnic spot near the stream. We took the High Road to Tous which goes over the mountains. I was really surprised, it was really green up there. Almost like the ADK. It turns out that we were up at about 8000 ft of elevation and the mountains around us were closer to 14,000. They make our ADK high peaks sound small. When we got to the picnic spot, we enjoyed a wonderful chicken