Last year at this time I was sitting in Varsity Donuts trying to make sense of living in Rural Kansas while not actively working for InterVarsity (My term ended February 2013) Today I\u2019m back in the same Donut shop to visit, a Seminarian, still making sense of my experiences here, many of which I was too busy, or too emotionally involved in to blog about at the time. <\/p>\n
The town is full of Ghosts today. It is not the same community that I am returning to, the students I served, and friends I made have almost all moved on like I have, in their place is a new crop of NPCs. People I don\u2019t know and will not build relationships with along with the land\u2019s memory of what once was. <\/p>\n
On that bench over there I met with the Moore group for the first time, the table over there housed a weekly bible study where someone came to faith. That\u2019s the field where I fought with lightsabers, and across from it I helped students move. Each place abandoned, except by the imaginary silhouettes of significance I put there in my mind. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a funny statement \u201cthere is no such thing as ghosts\u201d I feel like I\u2019m beginning to understand how a house where a child has died, or a violent battle has taken place can be considered haunted and therefore inhospitable. I guess it\u2019s like Santa Clause in that way. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to try to meet the ghosts while I\u2019m here and write about them. I want to engage in the memories before they fade. Some of that will be published in the coming days. Forgive me if some others show up in random places in the coming monthes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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