Spending Time With God

I am looking forward to the next week...vacation! Rhode Island, Maine, the accent, clam cakes and chowder, gagers, camping out, smores, the smell of the ocean, screaming seagulls, hiking through the mountains, beautiful sunsets looking down from the Acadian Mountains, sail boats, fishing, getting eaten alive by mosquitos :-) ....I wish everyone could come too!!! My niece is coming. I am really excited about that, because she has never been to the East Coast. We are going to take her to see everything. My uncle's graduation party is next Saturday!! He has worked really hard. He's an designer. He designs things for companies like furniture and sculptures. Pretty cool stuff! One day while we are there we are going to downtown Providence to see the fires on the river. There is this river that runs through the city and there are these huge round grates in it that hold burning wood through the night. There are going to be tons of people there. There is always a show going on down at the "stage". You never know what you will see there. Dancers, clowns on stilts, singers...it's a lot of fun!

I am looking forward to taking a long nap at the beach. I love to listen to the waves. They remind me of God. They are so beautiful and powerful. Whenever a huge wave crashes I always jump and fall back to sleep as others calm me. I used to think that Rhode Island was my home, but I realized that isn't true. My home is with God. Take away everything else and I won't care. When I was a little girl I was very quiet and shy. I can remember being in the third grade sitting on the school bus talking to God. I didn't have any friends at the time because I had just started at a new school which I was used to doing. I can remember not feeling lonely because God told me He wanted to be my friend. Because I couldn't see Him, I would look out the window of the bus and at the sky and the trees knowing that He made those things and I felt Him near me. I can remember how He would make me laugh. One time some kids sitting next to me asked me what I was laughing at and I said "God's funny". They looked at me shocked and I just smiled. It feels good to spend real time with God. So, while I am on vacation I am going to be seeking Him a lot. I am really looking forward to it. There is nothing I love more than my heavenly dad.

Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; and let those who love Your salvation say without ending, Let God be magnified.
Psa 70:4