We began our bittersweet day with our last team meeting,
assessing goals and making plans for the day’s assignments. The Florida contingent, Bonnie and Sunny gave
each family a shell, noting the lines represent all points from which we came,
meeting in one place, Browning, and the hope that one day all people will meet.
Billy read from Matthew 25:
Then the King will say, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to
eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you
invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked
after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me…..
…I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these
brothers of mine, you did for me.”
Reminded that our week was a reflection of the Creator, the
group decided we will all pray for, or lift up the community when we awaken
each Monday morning. Goodbyes were said to the Webster family. Nadine and
Bonnie went to the Sr. Center and visited with elders. Sunny, Kelley, Ann
Hackman and Molly went to the safe house for teary goodbyes with the children.
In the afternoon, Nadine, Annalisa, and Bonnie went to the nursing home and
played a very confusing game with some of the residents, who seemed to enjoy
it. Rawah and her girls, Nadine and Leena, said goodbye to us and Joe drove
them to Great Falls to catch an early flight home.
The surviving five, Ann Marett, Annalisa, Sunny, Kelley, and
Bonnie drove the 12 miles to East Glacier for dinner at the Luna Diner, eating
buffalo burgers and salmon sandwiches.
Sunny sampled the much touted huckleberry pie. On return to BCC campus, Annalisa’s
mother and friend Andrew arrived and took her with them.
Our last night’s rest in Browning was punctuated, as usual,
with fireworks from the community, a reminder of the approaching July 4th
national celebration, a sobering reminder that even though we are very
different from our Blackfeet brothers and sisters, we have much in common. - Bonnie
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