How wonderful to see friends after a year apart. We keep in touch via email, but that doesn't come close to our camaraderie in person. They have been traveling all over the world and I am delighted to hear them chat about France and other countries where they have discovered new friends.
Yesterday we wandered about at the most robust farmer's market - they had everything and then some! We explored a delightful antique store seeking buttons for making cards, took in the lakeshore castles both by land and by water, and bought some flowers at a nursery. Today, we attend an outdoor church service, then have an amazing repast at a local bakery restaurant. Eggs Benedict a la excellence.
We return to the condo and sit lazily on the deck watching boats go by, children play, and people water skiing and tubing in the cool lake. What a restful day. We chat about this that and the other thing, catching up, laughing, enjoying each others' company. Even Zoe, her royal highness the dog, gets into the act.
How far removed from the academic world of comps and orals, concerts and libraries, striving to accomplish something. So much better to take a cruise on the Lake with Cap'n Bob, to feel the refreshing spray of water coming up over the bow (and be grateful I am not sitting on the front deck being drenched everytime we hit a boat wake or a swell).
These are the important things - just enjoying life with others. Sitting back and watching the gorgeous hues of pink and purple as the sun rotates toward the west, painting a trail of beauty in its wake. Watching the parent birds come and go, feeding their babies in their nest under the eaves. Enjoying the new vines twining about the deck rails, tendrils stretching in the spacious new abode. Playing a board game, sipping a cool drink, being glad I am not out there tubing in the chill of evening.
This is what God created the world for. Enjoyment. All his imaginative splendor at our disposal. My heart wells with gratitude that God didn't limit our world to black and white in the interest of not overwhelming us. Still, I can't help thinking that greater and more wonderful things await in heaven, things we just couldn't possibly absorb yet. We shall see.
Meanwhile, off to bed for sweet deep sleep after a most relaxing day.
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