Illinois: Here I Come!

Took a call this morning from Jim Burns VP of the Unity Church Board. He advised that it's a go for me to fill the pulpit starting in April. We haven't worked out the details yet but intend to do so in March.

I'll stay with Jim for the duration. Compensation yet to be determined. I'll take the California Zephyr out of Denver Union Station and head either to Galesburg or Chicago. The Zephyr doesn't go to Quincy but Amtrak does service Quincy so I may have to transfer to a separate train at Chicago's Union Station.

It's an exciting proposition for me to reunite with all the friends I made in Quincy. And, I hope to reconnect with friends and family from back home too.

This adventure going back to Illinois will mean that I will start my westward journey from Denver to Seattle a month later than originally planned. No matter, it just means getting to Seattle a month later but I'll still be crossing the Cascades before the first snowfall... I hope.

I'll definitely miss my Idaho Springs friends, brothers and sisters for sure.

But, that's life. Saying hello and goodbye. Hopefully, I'll be back to see everyone in Colorado in a few years and rekindle these delightful relationships that have sustained me here for so long.

Thanks to Jim Burns for all of his support, financial, love etc and to the Unity Church Board for this great opportunity to proclaim the greatest news that there is: God coming back to live with us to make his abode with us and to bring us back to the Garden of Eden where we will reign with him as Kings and Priests in the Kingdom of God!

In other news: if its Wednesday then it's meatloaf at the Blackwells tonight with Church services at First Baptist following with Pastor Dawit who is teaching out of Revelation.

Performed my laundry duty at the laundromat where I ran into Mona who used to attend Tuesday night Celebrate Recovery with me. I stopped going a good while ago as did she.

Mona left her home in California to go on her own traveling journey via her automobile and somehow ended up in Idaho Springs. She related to me the story of the church next to where she is renting. The church is St John's Anglican. Bishop Fischer passed away suddenly at the young age of 65. The story is that he was a defrocked Catholic priest here in town and evidently there was some disagreement with the Diocese in Denver and a new church was constructed a few blocks away and a new priest installed. The old church building was transferred to Fr Fischer. He still held court and officiated with only 2 parishioners, 2 older ladies including Mona's landlady Susan. Susan and Fr Fischer became very good friends so when be died last September he bequeathed the church property to her. So now she owns the church and conducts a prayer service on Sunday morning.

Mona is going to ask Susan if I can interview her to do a story on Fr Fischer and the events surrounding this situation.

I am no longer driving Miss Daisy to her medical appointments so I'm no longer splitting my time between the Lucas House and the Boarding House. I'm back to full time at the Lucas House. I just could not commit fully to her schedule but, I'll miss my car driving time with her.

Last pic shows St John's Anglican Church.

That is all.

Grace and peace to you all!

BR Schoenbein
January 27, 2016- Wednesday