Good morning, friends! I hope your weekend is treating you well. We’ve had a good week around here, and these are just a few of the highlights.
Last Sunday
evening we took the first boat ride of the season! It was a perfect evening…a
good breeze, a sweet sunset, and Lexi couldn’t have been any happier to be back
on the boat! Here’s to a beautiful summer of boat rides.
Is there
much that is more fulfilling than beginning a new paper planner? I frequently
start mine in the summer, and this year is no different. Writing in the first
items, adding the pretties and the color coding…ahhh.
As I shared
with you, this week marked 30 years since I graduated from high school, and I
marked the day by writing a sermon and going to a meeting at Swiss Village. I
also carved out time to reflect on the beautiful life God has allowed me to
live in the last 30 years. It hasn’t been perfect. Some parts have been really
hard. But God has been so faithful, and I celebrate the goodness He’s allowed
me to live.
Though the
week has been good, life has been quite overwhelming on many fronts lately. I
was at church this week and found myself unable to catch a deep breath, so I
put down my work, walked to the sanctuary, and sat there for a while, praying,
taking breaths, and allowing the Lord to calm and settle my heart. I am so
thankful for this room and the chance to steal away and pray here when life is
too much. (Or even when it’s not!)
I worked
from home on Thursday, and Lexi was ALL SNUGGLES all day while we worked on
everything on my list. (It was garage sale weekend here, so we had SO much
traffic. This offends her, so we had to hide away in the living room where she
couldn’t see the golf cards and cars and trucks with trailers and…and…)
Rain has
slowed us down from taking walks, but we were able to get one in early in the
morning this week – even though it was coat-worthy weather. As I shared in a
Facebook post this week, taking walks has been something Ryan and I have dearly
loved for our entire marriage. Everywhere we have ever lived, we’ve found
walking paths and visited them as often as possible. We have our best talks on
walks, and now we have Lexi to love the walks as much as we do! (As long as
Hank the Heron isn’t hanging around…)
We had a
chance to visit some friends yesterday – friends we haven’t seen in a long,
long time. They invited us to sit with them on the screened in porch, talk, and
drink coffee. It was raining, and it was just so serene. I was thankful for the
slowness, the friendship, the conversation, and the sound of the rain hitting the
roof. We should sit on porches in rain more often.
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