Recap: Last summer I wanted to live in Chicago, but the Lord took me back home. Fast-forward, this summer I wanted to go to Poland, then to Seattle -- with a little bit of homesickness stuffed in there - but the Lord has placed me in Chicago for the summer.
Did God mix up His time line? Oh, no...that was me. always.
And like you've already concluded, I have find myself writing this blog on the 9th floor of Houghton Hall overlooking this landscape:
Actually, while I'm here, why not throw in a few more skyline photos....
Yesterday, I left campus for my internship at 9am, I got back last night at 9pm -- instead of 6pm
Usually, we hang out in the office for most of the day, but we had a lot of out-of-office work yesterday that took us longer than usually.
And, of course, commuting back into the city via CTA takes a good amount of time.
Actually, in all honesty I didn't mind coming back at 9pm. I took a different route. My PCM is in Irving Park (this is for all you Chicago-minded people, those who don't know the city, sorry!) and I take the blue line and the 66 bus back to Chicago. Not much of a skyline view (blue line is the subway).
BUT last night we finished up in Oak Park and I rode the green line ( the elevated train -- yes, the 'L') and transferred in the loop to the brown line. The loop is one of my favorite places in Chicago.
Commuting around the city makes me feel more apart of the city than anything else.
There is something about being down in the loop that makes your blood flow, you feel apart of the heartbeat of the city.
At the very center of it all.
And as much as I would love to be in the middle of the mountains, there is still something about Chicago that captures my heart.
Its a beautiful city, its a rough city, its cultured, dangerous, affluent,
So for this summer, my heart beats for Chicago. In all its beauty and ugliness. Because God's heart is for this city.
In Chicago as it is in Heaven.
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