This is a picture of Trey and I standing atop the "Gates of Hell" at Ceserea Phillipi. The Gates of Hell was a spring coming forth from a cave with a temple to the goddess Pan built around it. This was also the spot that Jesus said those famous words to Peter: "On this rock I will buld my church and the gates of hell will not stand against it." Well those gates did not keep Trey and I from climbing to the top of them. In this picture (to the right people) you can actually see the cave itself to the right of my head.The whole trip was full of experiences like this, but one thing that struck me on the trip actually came from the reading I did on the bus rather than the places I traveled to (although as I said those were amazing). I finished C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet on this trip, and got 3/4's of the way through Peralandria before the trip was over, and a quote from Peralandria stuck out to me. I just gave the book back to its owner, so I will not be able to phrase this as well as Mr. Lewis does, but the idea was something like this: after eating the most delicious fruit that Ransom (the main character) had ever tasted, he was about to reach for another w hen stomething within him stopped him from doing so. He then wondered how many times he repeated an action simply for the reason plying him to repeat the pleasure he had just experienced when he really was satisfied and repeating the action would only give him a lesser filling of pleasure because he no longer desired the fruit for food, it was simply reason that pushed him to repeatedly fulfill his "desire" which was already satisfied. Doing so again would do no more than take the true joy out of the act. Like trusting someone's word only once you know the truth, there is no real trust. Anyway I just thought it was an interesting, applicible thought.
Perhaps later I'll update this further, but for now know that it was a sweet four days.
Cheers,
DP
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