Lent: day 31

Some movies make it into the regular conversation of life. Last week, while visiting my parents we used a bread machine to make bread. About an hour into the process, my mom checked it. When asked how it looked she said, “The flux capacitor is fluxing.”

Here is one of my favorite questions for youth on a trip, at camp, or around a meal table. It is good for adult gatherings as well. If you’ve been on International Affairs Seminar with me, you’ve probably thought about or offered your answer. I included this question in our Lent devotion.

You are gifted one round-trip ride in a time machine. This isn’t a quantum leap (great TV show) kind of experience. You don’t get to alter the past to change the present, right a wrong, or stop a specific action. You are an observer.

You are gifted one round-trip ride in a time machine.

Where would you go? Who would you see?

Like you, I have several answers. You only get one ride. Depending on the people in the conversation my usual answers are:

Attend the second day of the Woodstock festival.
Listen to the debate about using the atomic bomb, or not, during World War II.
Who were my ancestors that came to the United States and how did they settle in Louisiana?
Attend the First Council of Nicaea