How a map may keep me from heaven
Jan. 2nd, 2011 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csberryI am a map geek. I love maps. I'll spend hours staring at an atlas as others may become engrossed in novels, video games, or drugs. Not only that, but I pride myself on identifying cities by their skyline. Watch a movie or TV show with me and they show a skyline, I'll ID it for you. Freakin' Tron: Legacy drove me nuts the other night with their construction of a fake city skyline of where the real world portion was supposed to take place. And, yes, I do get annoyed to see the Dallas skyline in the movie RoboCop (which takes place in Detroit).
Unfortunately, the video person at the contemporary worship service, Vicki, doesn't know about my map geekiness. So, when she created the slides for the church service today and saw the sermon was about guidance...Vicki put a blowup of a map as the background image for the sermon slides.
I spent the whole sermon gazing at the map, trying to figure out where it was.
There was a splash of blue in the upper left corner and the roads didn't seem American. The map was filled with lots of town names that started with Drum_______. I found a Blackrock and the only bolded name that I could see (remember, this is a background image, so much of the center of the map was obscured by other images and text) was Leitrim. But the more I said the town names in my mind, the more I was convinced that I was looking at someplace in either Ireland or Wales.
After the service was done, I went to Vicki and told her of my sermon-length distraction and was thrilled to be told that the map was of a portion of Ireland.
Unfortunately, the video person at the contemporary worship service, Vicki, doesn't know about my map geekiness. So, when she created the slides for the church service today and saw the sermon was about guidance...Vicki put a blowup of a map as the background image for the sermon slides.
I spent the whole sermon gazing at the map, trying to figure out where it was.
There was a splash of blue in the upper left corner and the roads didn't seem American. The map was filled with lots of town names that started with Drum_______. I found a Blackrock and the only bolded name that I could see (remember, this is a background image, so much of the center of the map was obscured by other images and text) was Leitrim. But the more I said the town names in my mind, the more I was convinced that I was looking at someplace in either Ireland or Wales.
After the service was done, I went to Vicki and told her of my sermon-length distraction and was thrilled to be told that the map was of a portion of Ireland.
