earlier this month. This is my favourite of all the stories:
August the 13th, 2012
sometime around Noon
Manitoba, Canada
I have been traveling this week and last. I am currently on an adventure with Eliza and David on Victoria Beach way up north. Every day has been the best day of my life so far, until the next day comes and replaces the previous in the ranking of best days ever.
Last night was full of magic and the Creator's abundant glory, though the night first arrived as troubling. It began when we planned for it to come to an end. We were dressed for bed when Eliza discovered one of the lenses to her camera missing. The last place she had it was the beach, so all 3 of us quickly dressed for a cold Canadian night and fled the house, wrapped in a blanket and holding flashlights to begin a frantic search.
There were many footprints in the sand along the shoreline by the time we decided it wasn't there. We could not see the waves but we could hear them. Three children on a black and quiet beach is what we were. And amidst the entirety of our searching, I often found myself gazing at the sky rather than the ground, flashlight turned off--I saw the Milky Way for the first time. We were swallowed by a degree of nightly darkness I had never seen, not even all the way back home in my country field. It was magnificently distracting.
After accepting the fact that the camera lens was nowhere on the beach, we rubbed our tired eyes and agreed to look again on the morrow. But we did not return to the house right away and slip gracefully off into dreamland in our sleep as we wished to earlier. You see, Creation was far too distracting this night. As our flashlights went off and our heads looked up...we suddenly found ourselves beneath a meteor shower.
The 3 of us were soon on our backs above the blanket we used to spread out over the sand. I counted at least 16 shooting stars. God was telling us not to worry, it was going to be okay. We didn't need to fret about the lens.
The entire sky was dancing.
Creation looked more alive than ever.
He was telling us, "Be still and know that I am God."
We were 3 tiny beings with great purposes being cradled in the great Author's arms.
Today, on a bulletin board, someone left a note about a camera lens they found on the beach the day before; needless to say, Eliza finally has it back now.
We didn't have a reason to go outside last night...until something went missing. God just wanted to spend time with us in His Creation. He wanted for us to see that phenomenal meteor shower.
It blows my mind that He craves our company.
August the 13th, 2012
sometime around Noon
Manitoba, Canada
I have been traveling this week and last. I am currently on an adventure with Eliza and David on Victoria Beach way up north. Every day has been the best day of my life so far, until the next day comes and replaces the previous in the ranking of best days ever.
Last night was full of magic and the Creator's abundant glory, though the night first arrived as troubling. It began when we planned for it to come to an end. We were dressed for bed when Eliza discovered one of the lenses to her camera missing. The last place she had it was the beach, so all 3 of us quickly dressed for a cold Canadian night and fled the house, wrapped in a blanket and holding flashlights to begin a frantic search.
There were many footprints in the sand along the shoreline by the time we decided it wasn't there. We could not see the waves but we could hear them. Three children on a black and quiet beach is what we were. And amidst the entirety of our searching, I often found myself gazing at the sky rather than the ground, flashlight turned off--I saw the Milky Way for the first time. We were swallowed by a degree of nightly darkness I had never seen, not even all the way back home in my country field. It was magnificently distracting.
After accepting the fact that the camera lens was nowhere on the beach, we rubbed our tired eyes and agreed to look again on the morrow. But we did not return to the house right away and slip gracefully off into dreamland in our sleep as we wished to earlier. You see, Creation was far too distracting this night. As our flashlights went off and our heads looked up...we suddenly found ourselves beneath a meteor shower.
The 3 of us were soon on our backs above the blanket we used to spread out over the sand. I counted at least 16 shooting stars. God was telling us not to worry, it was going to be okay. We didn't need to fret about the lens.
The entire sky was dancing.
Creation looked more alive than ever.
He was telling us, "Be still and know that I am God."
We were 3 tiny beings with great purposes being cradled in the great Author's arms.
Today, on a bulletin board, someone left a note about a camera lens they found on the beach the day before; needless to say, Eliza finally has it back now.
We didn't have a reason to go outside last night...until something went missing. God just wanted to spend time with us in His Creation. He wanted for us to see that phenomenal meteor shower.
It blows my mind that He craves our company.
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