Bonus image for Advent

    Here's an image for all of you fellow preachers out there, getting ready to proclaim with John the Baptist, "prepare ye the way of the Lord." My colleague Warren has been a regular participant in RAGBRAI, the annual (Des Moines) Register and Gazette Bike Ride Across Iowa. A few years ago Warren met the man whose job it is to GPS every pothole along the course each spring so that the highways folks can smooth out the road for the 10,000 or so riders who will make the ride in July.
    Preparing the way is not about "making a list and checking it twice" or starting your shopping in September,  but maybe it does require the kind of up close attention to the state of our souls that this gentleman pays to the roads.