Mendoza Road trip
A Mens Get-a-way
Monday, January 9, 2012
One Sunday about three weeks ago we were sitting around the table with some of our closest friends from church (Zalaquett, Hasbun, Rodriguez and Lerma). We began to share about our trip to Colombia and how good it was for us to have gone. From there somehow we got on the subject that almost all the wives around the table had been on women’s retreats in Cancun, Mexico and Costa Rica, while the men had not had the same opportunity. Therefore the men began to claim their right to travel and then the wives conceded that they could go to Mendoza, Argentina. Even though the men realized that the trip was not quite the same as going to a five-star hotel in the Caribbean, it was a trip. They better take advantage now because it might be a long time before it happened again.
The five of us left for Mendoza at 4:00 am arriving there around 11:00 am. It was a great time to share struggles, ideas, plans, and desires. There was no plan for the 3 day trip so we spent time growing in our relationship with one another. There were time to share our fears for the future of the church and pray for the transitions to come in the church. We told stories of our childhoods and memories of our walk with God. After the experience we caught a glimpse of what it could have been like fro the disciples to have walked 3 years with Jesus. What a wonderful time with fellow men.
After experience our time in Mendoza, I am convinced that men need those times to bond and talk about life without the pressures of time and work. The richness of the conversation cannot be achieved in our day-to-day live and once on Sundays. Memories and deep conversations happen in the absence of worldly pressures. Men I ask you to work hard at building relationship with other men and invest yourself in the lives of those who walk down the path of Christ-followers. You get out what you put in.
