GIFTS

This is the time of year when everyone talks about resolutions, beginnings, and how awful the past year has been. We quickly abandon the celebratory season in which we revel in the story of how mankind was given the greatest gift despite our failings. We toss that aside to mull over how we failed in last year’s resolutions and how we will not this time.

For a few years there has been something I have wanted in my life- I’m going to call it home- and I would ask myself why I didn’t have it. I thought God was withholding this thing from me because I wasn’t focused enough on Him. I promised myself I would be better, more steadfast in my Christianity, that I would be good enough to be given this thing. That I would deserve it.

I’ve don’t think that anymore.

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Loving the Beach

I write to you all in a post-memorial day sunburn. I’m pretty okay about it considering it was that or working. The reason I love going to the beach is not just for some good old vitamin D, I like to people watch. The beach is one of the best places to people watch. So while I was lying out on the sand (okay not literally on the sand, I was on a blanket) I was looking at all the people enjoying our beautiful lakeshore. A Pocahontas and a Sacagawea chilling their feet in the lake while sporting some snazzy aviators, a small army of children building a civilization out of sand, and three boys of various ages in matching swimsuits chasing waves… and each other. Just to name a few. There were also many families and young couples enjoying the combination of the warm sunshine and cool lake.

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