Time & Perspective

Time and Perspective. . Look at the vast wide-open spaces and distances surrounding you. Consider the courage it would take to live in a world where travel was much slower and so much more difficult. What if you didn't have road maps, GPS navigation, convenient stores, or cell phones. If you grew up without all the modern methods of travel and navigation however, would you even consider traveling a burden, or just a matter of course in day-to-day life?, The distance hasn't changed over time, only the way we get there has., Put yourself at Fort Craig in the late 1800's. There were basically three modes of travel then; walking, riding a horse, or horse and wagon. If you had to go to Socorro for something, 45 miles away, and you knew you had to walk, how would you prepare for that 2-3-day journey?, Walking - 3 miles per hour and 20 miles per day , Horse and Wagon - 20-30 miles per day , Riding a Horse - 50 miles per day, In the last days of spring in 1928, Henderson Odell Ricks was asked by his father to drive a mule drawn wagon loaded with all the family possessions from Muleshoe, Texas, to the new family farm in Bokchito, Oklahoma. Henderson, barely a teenager himself, was told to take his younger brother Patrick Murry along to help tend the mules. Their father would drive the Model T truck with their mother and younger siblings and meet them in Oklahoma. Henderson's only instructions from his father were to 'get there son. We are all counting on you'. Nearly two months later the boys safely arrived in Bokchito. At over 90 years of age, and recounting the story, Uncle Son as he become known by his many nephews and nieces, said the hardest part of that joumey wasn't knowing which direction to go, the hardest part was finding water every 20 miles for the mules. , Patrick Murry Ricks, "Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks." , From Kosuke Koyama's book "Three Mile an Hour God"