This is one of our favorite places to retreat. It is a treat to come here by the invitation and open door hearts of dear friends and their parents. We love to come to the lake and be quiet. To get away from normal craziness. To commune with each other. To laugh until your stomach hurts and tears roll down your eyes. To make memories. To have fun in the water. To make a campfire and roast marshmallows. To watch meteors fly by in the black sky filled with millions of stars…stars I can only see when I’m at the lake away from the city lights. To watch sunrises.
One of the priceless gifts there is the opportunity to wake up with the sun and just be outside on the porch overlooking the cove. Still half asleep the sound of all the birds and ducks calling out to each other wake me up, along with the gentle laps of water that roll into the little beach shore, the faint sound of a boat out in the water, the chimes performing beautiful music conducted by the breeze.
Won’t heaven be something like this some day?
God you are the breeze I feel gently brushing against my cheek and hands as I type. You are the sunrise. You are majesty like the mountains I see. You are the Living Water as I watch it dance in the lake with a gentle and steady pulse. You are Beauty. You are yet… the Peace the passes all understanding. You are my All in All. You are I AM.
You are Present here.
Weekend get-away Joys….
#795 retreat
#796 No thunderstorm while on the boat
#797 “…when your heart throbs and swells with joy” (Isaiah 60:5)
#798 sun reaching and radiant through dark clouds
#799 lake sunsets and sunrises
#800 laughter from stories
#801 songs friend sang all weekend (Do you love Jesus?)
#802 sound of chimes on porch
#803 waking up early to see sun rise over lake
#804 son’s boldness to be adventurous
#805 safe with water toys
#806 campfires on the shore
#807 s’mores
#808 seeing a shooting meteor
#809 listening to friends’ stories
#810 cloudless Sunday morning
#811 swimming in the lake
#812 Peaks of Otter mountain view
Thank you to this special family for the weekend!!!!
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