The Scriptural Deacon

This is my second post about a trip my wife and I took to Spain for the occasion of a wedding. The last post was about our taxi ride when we got there, so here it what happened next. Being that one usually arrives in Europe in the morning when traveling from the US, Joanne and I decided to take a walk through a very large park in the heart of Madrid. It is called, “Parque del Buen Retiro” or “The Buen Retiro Park”. It is a little less the half the size of Central Park in NY, but still well worth checking out. Among the many things that we saw two things jumped out at me to think about further. Here is the first one, with the next one to follow in my next post. Hopefully sooner than this one. First, was our walk through the “Palacio de Cristal” or as we would say, “The Crystal Palace”. From the outside it’s a beautiful structure. That has a large pond in the front of it, that sort of acts as a reflecting pool.  But once inside this all changed. I found o...

My wife and I just returned from a trip to Spain. Yes, we left behind the five kids with awesome and loving grandparents. Then made the journey over the great pond, just 8 short hours in the air. It was a fantastic trip. We landed in Madrid, then went to a beautiful wedding in Toledo. I am one who likes to watch and pay attention to what is going on around me and often later reflect on the different things that I observe. I have narrowed down my observations on this trip to around five blog post that I would like to share with everyone. By doing this I can bring together food, love, relationships, travel, and God. While at the same time not rushing to tell you the stories that made the biggest impression upon myself. The first event I would like to relate to everyone is the taxi ride from the airport in Madrid, to our hotel that we would be staying in when we returned from the wedding. Now I do a lot of driving back home and am not one who scares easily by clo...