What a great day to get caught up on life. The day started with a nice visit and breakfast with a friend. After breakfast I picked up my daughter for an afternoon of power shopping. I am home now and looking out the window at the rain thinking life is good… The birds are happily splashing in my birdbath and 4 ducks are strutting around my backyard. I remember a day like this many years ago. I was about 23 and living in Minneapolis. I decided it was the perfect time for a walk around the lake. I drove to Lake Calhoun and started my 6 mile trek. The air felt the same, the birds sounded the same, and the ducks were strutting around showing off for the hens.
Something about Minnesota… Where else can you be in a huge city and still see wild life and feel like you are in the woods? Don’t get me wrong… I live for the day I will buy my lake home and get to drink coffee in the morning on the lake and have a glass of wine at sunset. I long for the day I can fish whenever I want. How nice will it be in the winter to set up my spearhouse and leave it out everynight. Dreaming of the future and trying to make it happen… I am determined and confident it will happen.
I appreciate our beautiful state so much. As I look outside at the rain I cannot help but compare the rain to tears. The oil rig disaster in Louisiana is so tragic. This disaster shows no signs of ending soon and there is no way of estimating the environmental damage being done to our ocean, the coastline, and our fish and wild life… How sad for the families of the 11 men that were lost. I know my prayers tonight are going to be focused on asking God to comfort these families and to stop this leak. I cannot help but look at these pictures from the air of our “red ” ocean, without considering Revelation 8:8 and wondering if this is a part of it. Please pray for my friends in the gulf… They cannot fish and the tourism is beginning to suffer. Keep these people and this situation in your prayers. We live in our safe little bubble and tend to forget about the suffering of others.
I also want to remind you to pray for our soldiers that are still deployed. They are in the armpit of this world for your benefit. The least you can do while you are sitting in your cozy airconditioned home is to give them 5 minutes of your thoughts and prayers.
Take care and do something nice for someone you love today. Make a 15 minute phone call and tell a relative you miss them. Have a great night and I love you all!