The Beauty of the Lord

One of my favorite weeks of the year has arrived. Our annual week at the beach in Hilton Head! Hilton Head seems to have been given a great deal of special attention by God when He was creating smackdab beautiful places. I cannot imagine the Garden of Eden could hold a candle to Hilton Head.It is fitting to pause here and wish the Father of all Creation a Happy Father's Day. Then to my own Dad, and to my husband, may this day be filled with the delight you deserve!

We arrived just in time to unpack and then sit on the porch sipping wine as a thunderstorm rolled in. Our condo porch overlooks a lagoon bordered by live oak and magnolia trees, dripping with spanish moss. I know. You should hate me. I am blessed indeed.

In the morning, I plan to go kayak on the intercoastal waterway with the dolphins. If I am lucky, one will surface right next to me. In past years, they have done so every morning. I go early all by myself, before the boats and crazy people scare them away. We commune until I try to get a photo and then they disappear as silently as they emerged. Nonetheless, I will try to take a picture for you. Otherwise, you may not hear from me for a week. I intend to relax and soak in the bounty of God's glorious creation.

We all need renewal, replenishment, repose. Hilton Head is one of my favorite places to recharge dead spiritual and emotional batteries. I am a frenetic person, typical type A personality. But I can sit on this porch for hours and not move. I look out over the lagoon, and watch the spanish moss wave in the breeze, without moving a muscle. There is no deep spiritual lesson here. Just gratitude, and appreciation for the beauty God has bestowed upon our world just for me.

Thank you Abba, Father!

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Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end

Philippians 4:8 

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Psalm 27:4 

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.