Simple Rocks

How good it feels to be back writing!  Thank you once again, for your patience with my absence in this blog.  Hopefully we are back into our normal rhythms and will have the time and space to write and share our hearts with you.  Thank you, as well, for reading.  How humbling it is to know you stop by...


Have you seen the Lord provide for you in these past weeks?  Have you been nourished in His daily provisions?


The past weeks have been a bounty of His provision: time with family, laughter, date nights, sunshine, delicious food, gifts, adventures...

Just today we have been so blessed with grace after grace.  Daniel has the whole week off!  What a wonder to have all this time together especially as we prepare for the next season of our lives.  Daniel blessed me this morn with a full morning's rest: this Mama didn't get out of bed until 9:30!    We spent the day in the sunshine, taking the narrow trail that leads to the Water's edge.  This trail requires you to hold tightly to the rope that is attached at the beginning of the trail and then at the end: such a steep incline requires you to hold fast!  After crossing the railroad tracks and down yet another slope with a rope railing, you land upon one of the Sound's rocky shores.

It captures you breathless with it's beauty and offers bountiful adventures for our family to explore.

A way in which we saw His provision today?  Simple really, but aren't some of life's most precious gifts magnanimous in their simplicity?

Rocks.  We beheld His provision of rocks and what a wonder to consider how many thousands of rocks just this one beach held.

Rocks and the countless activities they provide for those who get down on their knee to see

And we felt nourished, energized, free as we climbed that steep incline back to the trail that led us home.  God's gifts are meant for that, to refresh, to nourish.  Even when the gifts are so simple.  Simple as a little rock.  But the beauty of the gift is unwrapped when you sit child-like, sand caked to your skin, and eyes alive to perceive the endless wonder in everything that surrounds.  Everything which we don't deserve but yet are freely given.