(Sunday, July 14, 2013) The sweetest memory from the 2013 Dream Conference was when Bonnie and I went kayaking with the dolphins. The weather was perfect, the sea was gentle and warm. Our guide John told us we were traveling in a pod of about 250 Bottlenose Dolphins: newborn babies, bulls and cows. He told us that if we paddled without striking our oars on the side of the kayak that the pod would come to accept us.
It was true. They started swimming closer and closer, popping up from under the surface to give us one curious eye, then dipping back down beneath the waves. At times they were only five or so feet away from our kayak. John explained that the sea below us was full of dolphins and that we were seeing just a few of them above the water. I am still under their spell.
Our guide, a young Christian pastor, was quite the suitable companion for such a mystical experience. I had the sense, the whole time in Virginia, of being a player in a scene from the film “Brother Where Art Thou.” Everywhere we went folks were god blessing us and wishing us a “blessed day.”
