Journey to Dine Bikeyah - Part 5

Chicago:

Here I was age 25, having just gotten done with my first summer working in Dine Bikeyah at Broken Arrow Bible Ranch...  Now I was in a city far diffrent from the Pinon Pine and Sage Brush covered desert which I was in love with.  There I could hear the lone coyote howling his lonely watches through the night in the near by graveyard where he lived.   There I could here the ambulance bring the injured the the hosptial 3 blocks away all hours of the night from my 5th story window.  There I could feel the brezze from the water of lake Michigan 8 blocks away.  Yet my heart had no peace.   I was a wander in a strange land, far from the place I call home.

It was while we were there that Robby and I realized that we would never truely be home till our feet were firmly planted in Dine Bikeyah.  The more we talked with friends, some who wished we could stay forever in Chicago, and some who had been to Dine Bikeyah, and encoraged us to follow our callings... the more we knew we just had no peace in the city.  By the time our 14 months living in Chicagoland was up, we were restless and trapped by the buildings.  Still I love the city, and would like to visit and see old friend... but forever Dine Bikeyah is home.