Today's episode is about a road trip that Oprah and her bestie, Gayle, took to Yosemite this summer. We know that I am a long winded lady, and that brevity is not my strength. However, I'm going to try SO SO SO hard to keep this recap short and sweet... at least, considering the author :)
Getting Back to Nature
Oprah says a ranger, Shelton Johnson, who just so happened to be African American told her that not enough African Americans enjoy the nation's parks. He wrote Oprah to tell her that only about 1% of the 280 million tourists that visit the national parks each year are African American. We learn later that he meets people from Germany, even Africa, but no African American families.
So Oprah and Gayle are going camping. They go to REI and stock up. This is where I am reminded about how separate Oprah is from normal people--normal people can't afford to just walk into REI and spend a thousand dollars ($1,020.09, to be exact) to go camping for a week; maybe the show paid for it, but still. They hitch up their pop-up camper to their Chevy Tahoe and hit the road.
Tasting God
After squabbling about the music, how slow Gayle drives, etc, the women arrive at Yosemite to surprise Shelton. He takes them to see The Grizzly Giant, a famous giant sequoia; Oprah tells us her favorite things on earth are trees and sequoias are her favorite. Seeing that tree was like, she says, getting a little taste of god.
Later, Oprah and Gayle arrive at Tunnel View. That's when I feel like it's a taste of God. Not the way Oprah means it, probably, since she holds the view that god is in everything. But to see God's creation, knowing that He just spoke and then things like El Capitan just existed is absolutely incredible to me!
Setting Up Camp
Getting to camp, Oprah goes around a corner and hits a rock with their trailer. She feels it wasn't a big deal... but later finds out that it ruined their plumbing in the bathroom. Whoops! It's funny to see Oprah and Gayle try to get their camper set up; they squabble about Oprah taking a call from her man, Stedman Graham, and curse and struggle with the various requirements necessary to get the camper in livable condition for the week. Watching them sweat while the Harpo crew--big strapping men--hold cameras and watch is entertaining. And, because it's Oprah, the entire campground gathers to watch them.
Socializing
Oprah makes up a round of her favorite drink, a Moscow Mule; she shares the recipe and you can check it out here on her website. They seem like a take on mojitos to me. They take the drinks around the campsite to their neighbors, try what the neighbors are cooking for dinner, and make friends.
We learn that the second half of their adventure will air Wednesday, November 3 (next week); at the end of this show, though, Oprah brings up a couple she met at Yosemite, Woody and Judy Square. They stuck out because he's Black; thus far, he's the only other Black person they met. They're avid campers and take their family every summer, so Oprah brings them up on stage and gives them the Coleman Camper and hybrid Chevy Tahoe that she used. Yay for them!
Gospel Filter Review
The big thing that stuck out to me was very simple, and so this review will be shorter and sweeter than the recap (which, come on--wasn't it way shorter than usual?) if you can believe that.
First of all, creation is just that--created. It didn't happen by chance. Genesis 1 leaves no room for doubt--God made the world and everything in it. Now, whether that was around 10,000 years ago or 10 billion years ago isn't made crystal clear, but ultimately, it matters not. God made the world, humans were created (not evolved) and He is absolutely sovereign. We know that Jesus is the firstborn of all creation and God makes it clear creation yearns for the redemption that ultimately awaits it thanks to Jesus.
Finally, creation is meant to reveal God to us. Simply beholding God's creation makes us without excuse when it comes to understanding God's character, His invisible attributes and divine qualities.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20
So, then, yay for camping! What a sweet chance to rest, enjoy loved ones, and, most of all, revel in the loving God who reveals His good character to us through what He made. That includes people of every race, color, creed, gender, age, size, whatever! I pray that Oprah would enjoy creation as a good gift from God, the God who became a man and died on the cross for her sins, and nothing more, nothing less.
Lastly, for more on a Biblical view on generosity and giving, read this post.
And we're out! See you Monday!
Up Monday
Getting Back to Nature
Oprah says a ranger, Shelton Johnson, who just so happened to be African American told her that not enough African Americans enjoy the nation's parks. He wrote Oprah to tell her that only about 1% of the 280 million tourists that visit the national parks each year are African American. We learn later that he meets people from Germany, even Africa, but no African American families.
So Oprah and Gayle are going camping. They go to REI and stock up. This is where I am reminded about how separate Oprah is from normal people--normal people can't afford to just walk into REI and spend a thousand dollars ($1,020.09, to be exact) to go camping for a week; maybe the show paid for it, but still. They hitch up their pop-up camper to their Chevy Tahoe and hit the road.
Tasting God
After squabbling about the music, how slow Gayle drives, etc, the women arrive at Yosemite to surprise Shelton. He takes them to see The Grizzly Giant, a famous giant sequoia; Oprah tells us her favorite things on earth are trees and sequoias are her favorite. Seeing that tree was like, she says, getting a little taste of god.
Later, Oprah and Gayle arrive at Tunnel View. That's when I feel like it's a taste of God. Not the way Oprah means it, probably, since she holds the view that god is in everything. But to see God's creation, knowing that He just spoke and then things like El Capitan just existed is absolutely incredible to me!
Setting Up Camp
Getting to camp, Oprah goes around a corner and hits a rock with their trailer. She feels it wasn't a big deal... but later finds out that it ruined their plumbing in the bathroom. Whoops! It's funny to see Oprah and Gayle try to get their camper set up; they squabble about Oprah taking a call from her man, Stedman Graham, and curse and struggle with the various requirements necessary to get the camper in livable condition for the week. Watching them sweat while the Harpo crew--big strapping men--hold cameras and watch is entertaining. And, because it's Oprah, the entire campground gathers to watch them.
Socializing
Oprah makes up a round of her favorite drink, a Moscow Mule; she shares the recipe and you can check it out here on her website. They seem like a take on mojitos to me. They take the drinks around the campsite to their neighbors, try what the neighbors are cooking for dinner, and make friends.
We learn that the second half of their adventure will air Wednesday, November 3 (next week); at the end of this show, though, Oprah brings up a couple she met at Yosemite, Woody and Judy Square. They stuck out because he's Black; thus far, he's the only other Black person they met. They're avid campers and take their family every summer, so Oprah brings them up on stage and gives them the Coleman Camper and hybrid Chevy Tahoe that she used. Yay for them!
Gospel Filter Review
The big thing that stuck out to me was very simple, and so this review will be shorter and sweeter than the recap (which, come on--wasn't it way shorter than usual?) if you can believe that.
First of all, creation is just that--created. It didn't happen by chance. Genesis 1 leaves no room for doubt--God made the world and everything in it. Now, whether that was around 10,000 years ago or 10 billion years ago isn't made crystal clear, but ultimately, it matters not. God made the world, humans were created (not evolved) and He is absolutely sovereign. We know that Jesus is the firstborn of all creation and God makes it clear creation yearns for the redemption that ultimately awaits it thanks to Jesus.
Finally, creation is meant to reveal God to us. Simply beholding God's creation makes us without excuse when it comes to understanding God's character, His invisible attributes and divine qualities.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20
So, then, yay for camping! What a sweet chance to rest, enjoy loved ones, and, most of all, revel in the loving God who reveals His good character to us through what He made. That includes people of every race, color, creed, gender, age, size, whatever! I pray that Oprah would enjoy creation as a good gift from God, the God who became a man and died on the cross for her sins, and nothing more, nothing less.
Lastly, for more on a Biblical view on generosity and giving, read this post.
And we're out! See you Monday!
Up Monday
Portia de Rossi talks about an eating disorder, being gay, and her weekend ranch retreat.
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