It has been almost three years since I traveled across the state of Alaska with four other energetic college students and recent grads.  The destination was not as far from home for me as it was for everyone else since I was born and raised in interior Alaska, but the experience has had a great effect on every step I have taken since the last day of debrief in August 2005.  It was the kind of summer one has to recover from.  By now I have gone through the stages of depression, withdrawal, doubt, times of seriously questioning my sanctification....  But even today, talking to my friends from SEND of Alaska's Summer Missionary Program (SMP) sometimes reminds me of what I imagine an AA meeting to be like.  ... more