I am an in-doors girl

This past weekend, my dear, sweet husband spent all day Saturday getting ready for our traditional Easter Sunday lunch. Each year we try to have family and friends who have no other plans to come over for lunch. Everyone brings a dish or two and if they have children who might want to hunt eggs, they bring a basket. We are blessed with a wonderful screened-in back porch and a nice front porch. We hadn't been using them since they were still covered in an inch of pollen! LOL I have never been one to want to be outside much. I don't really know why, but it's just the way I am. Anyway, when I came home from a bridal shower, I found that my youngest son and my husband had bleached and washed the entire back porch and hung the beautiful swing that my cousin made. The weather here in the south is perfect right now for swinging on the porch. With the end of school just around the corner, my two children and I found ourselves out on the porch today almost as much as we were inside. School work isn't quite as bad when being enjoyed "just a-swingin' ". I find that I can become an out-doors girl during this time of year when coaxed by wonderful efforts of a loving husband who enlists the aid of a 12 year old. It makes me think about when I get stale and dusty inside from not doing everything that God wants me to. He is faithful to clean me up and out and put me back in order for what I am designed and intended to do. I am so thankful that He is so patient with me.

My take on the Beach

As I said in the last post, I am being challenged in several ways. One way is to keep my eyes on Jesus. While I was at the beach watching my two youngest children dig for crabs, I took the chance to watch the waves wash in and out...in and out.....in and out. God used them to draw me closer and closer to Him. I wondered how He can still love me so much after I abandon Him time after time. But, as I watched the waves, He said to me that His love is just like the waves. His love washes my sin away just like those waves come in and out. My heart is cleansed just like the sand is smoothed out with each new wave. And then those sins are carried away never to be seen again. As I looked toward the horizon, I was reminded that His love is as infinite as the horizon seems to be. As far as my eye could see, so is His love. And just as  you think you are reaching the end.....there is still so much more to come! The beach even reminded Ree and EZ of how amazing God is. They tried so desperately to dig down to reach the creatures that make the little holes in the beach. Each time they would think they had reached it....it seemed to dig deeper. EZ asked how was it possible for it to dig so deep. Ree simply said, "God made them that way."

I really don't understand how anyone can go to the beach and say there is no God.