Opa!

Hooray! 

Dwayne and I are going to Greece this summer! 

We will be traveling with a group from our church to historic sites, especially those visited by Paul in the New Testament- including Athens! 

I've been reading Plato for years. Now I'm reading several of Aristotle's works for graduate school, so this trip is very personal to me. 

We studied Acts in church several months ago, and I became fascinated that it seems like Luke was deliberately speaking to the Greeks and making Paul out to be a new Aeneas. 

I'm fascinated with the connections between these Greek texts and ideas and the New Testament.  

My love of Scripture and my love of the Classic Greco Roman world combine in one perfect vacation! 

This trip feels like a kiss from God.

But I always joked that I'd never sail in the Aegean or Mediterranean. 

Having read the myths, it does not seem like a good idea, but this trip includes a three-four day cruise. 

Hopefully, it will not be anything like Gilligan's three hour tour or Odysseus's ten year journey home. 

In addition to the texts I am reading for graduate school, I will be assigning myself a reading list to prepare my imagination for the journey. 

First up, I reread Theseus and the Minotaur, since we will be visiting Crete and the ruins of a palace that what might have belonged to King Minos.