Live from Colorado

I’m sitting in front of a colossal, marble fireplace at a resort hotel originally built in 1918. Behind me, a water fountain’s cascade tranquilly complements the already peaceful classical music overhead. The Broadmoor certainly is everything that the Travel Channel says it is.

Just yesterday I was standing on a balcony wrapped up in a robe after a five minute hydrotherapy massage in a $100,000 shower, a while in the steam sauna, and some aroma therapy. On this balcony I was drinking hot tea, watching 300 or so Canadian geese and mallards fly in to roost and looking out on the powerful Rocky Mountains just as the sun dipped behind them. That was an evening I will never forget.

The day before that, I was walking across “the Terrazzo” at the United States Air Force Academy alongside an incredible cadet for the National Character and Leadership Symposium. Alex “Pre” Prevendar had to put up with me for 3 days as my escort, roommate, and tag-along. Together, we got to listen to speakers that represent the best of the last century and tomorrow. But I must say, this stud and I had a lot of laughs. In his patience, he answered every repetitive question I could throw at him, took me all across the base, and let me chill with a bunch of men and women that have sworn into serving our nation with their very lives. These are heroes… I felt very minute to stand amongst them.

In brief, this is just a glimpse of the incredible trip that has still not ended here in Colorado. I am going to have to stop writing now, simply so I can get back out and enjoy it. This is certainly a something I cannot ever take for granted.

I’ll write more of all the Lord has shown me once I get back. He is so good.

Grace and peace, brothers and sisters.