Sunday morning we headed out as close to 7 a.m. as possible to venture back up Mt. Eden for our own personal "Sermon on the Mt." from Uncle Hutch. The sun had already risen but it was still cool while we worshiped with just a guitar and our voices. Early and quiet, but worship nonetheless. Uncle Hutch did a narrative version of Luke 18 and 19, combining the two stories into a challenging message about allowing the Lord to take the scales from our eyes hindering us in anyway during our time in New Zealand, and doing whatever we can, like Zaccheus, to simply glimpse at the beautiful face of Jesus. We were then given a chance to spend time alone somewhere on the mountain to ask Jesus to remove the self-inflicted (or not) blindness in order to see His plan for each of us this semester. It was a unique and beautiful way to start our Sunday and our trip.
Next, some of us ran (slid) down to the bottom of the crater in the middle of the mount which was totally off limits and explicitly clear from numerous signs, buttttt we're foreign so we took advantage of the fact and ignored the warnings. We then proceeded to get yelled at but, you know what, YOLO.
When we got back to campus we had a wonderful brunch with pancakes, eggs and bacon and the rest of the day we had a lot of unplanned team bonding while playing volleyball, going for a run, knock-out, spoons, euchre, and finished up the day with a movie. Not much physical rest, but I think the Lord was honored by our day.
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