Back Home, Back to Reality

We landed back in Dallas Tuesday night and after getting the luggage that actually made it onto the flight we headed home. We arrived back at the house at 1:00 am Wednesday morning. I was beat after the 26 hours of travel from hotel to home. I slept in Wednesday morning and awoke to a yard that had not been mowed in over 3 weeks. So I stayed home Wednesday morning and cut the front yard. I decided to mow the back today (Saturday) and the whole yard needed to be mowed. Oh well, back to reality.

Our time in Greece was very rewarding. We photographed 13 manuscripts on Patmos and studied another 10. While in Athens we sere able to look at a total of 18 manuscripts this year. Our final day at the monastery on Patmos was spent meeting with Abbott Antipas and presenting him with 76 DVDs of manuscript photos, that's over 7200 pictures. Abbott Antipas was very warm and complementary toward us and our work. He told us that we are partners in the work of the Monastery and that he considers us "brothers" and a part of the monastery brotherhood.

But now back to work, back to classes in a few weeks, and back to mowing the yard... in other words, back to reality. However, even though my time in Greece can at times seem like a distant dream, it is a reality that I hope comes around again.

For some more insight into our time on Patmos and with the Orthodox see Dan Wallace's blog at http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/category/dan-wallace-posts/.