God's Classroom

I just returned from a weekend away with the RAs. We went to a house/cabin down in Brown County IN. It was nice to spend time with eachother and relax... poker, cooking, sleeping in, and starting and ending each day with a long sit in the hot tub...now that's a weekend.

Anyway, this part of Indiana is actually quite hilly. Yesterday we we went walking down the path and headed down toward the pond. Ryan fished for a while while the rest of us went on a rowboat. Then we started to wander around. A couple of us followed the path further down and then followed the creekbed back up. Later (while some of the guys were having fun swinging and banging into trees on a long vine), Ryan and I walked around to the other side of the pond, where I found the skull and antlers of a deer, which I picked up and took back with me.

My point in all of this is how much I appreciated just being able to walk around and explore. There's something about seeing a tree decomposing and dig through it, picking apart the slate in a creek and looking for aquatic life, or finding a skull and antlers and the bones all around it to lead you to think that the deer was dragged by something. It made me want to do/learn more, and, being an education person, made me wonder why so much of my middle and high school science experiences were spent inside. I guess I was reminded this weekend how much there is to do, see, and learn in GOD'S classroom.