Home Sweet Home
I was just thinking about how much fun I have had with my Facebook page. I enjoy talking about this place I have the opportunity to live and work. Some people have read my statements and felt like I was rubbing it in that I lived at the beach. I suppose there was some of that in the things I have written, but as I have thought about it I have come to a question. Shouldn't we all be able to find good things to write or talk about concerning the place we live? If I lived in the mountains I would talk about the cool mountain breezes, the refreshing mountain streams with rainbow trout jumping after May flies, the Trillium or May Apples in bloom, the colors of autumn and so on. Of course if I lived in the piedmont there would a whole different group of things to highlight. Things like lazy rivers, dogwoods in bloom, that beautiful Cardinal at the bird feeder, or a Red Tailed Hawk soaring over head would catch my attention. Big cities or small towns all have something to offer. Large cities have malls, museums, cultural entertainment and parks while small towns have family, close friends, fishing holes and a slower pace.
Every place has those things that we do not put in promotional brochures. The beach has sunburns, jellyfish, rip currents, undertow, sandspurs, sharks, a drug problem, other crime and of course work that detract from paradise. We certainly need to be aware of these things but why focus on them? Isn't it more fun to see the good around us? I'm not talking about simply seeing things through rose colored glasses but rather living out what we confess. Many people will quote the Scripture that says, "This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." [Psalm 118:24] But then they spend their time fretting about all the negative stuff around them. If you worry about getting a sunburn every time you go out side or if you go in the ocean your going to get stung by a jellyfish, bitten by a shark or sucked out to sea by a rip current, then you will most likely miss the dolphins jumping over the waves, the flock of pelicans skimming the water's surface, a ghost crab dance across the sand as it tries to avoid your stare, not to mention beautiful sunsets, ocean breezes and the waves breaking on white sandy beaches. To miss those things would be tragic indeed.
Say this with me, "This is the day the Lord has made and this is the place He has planted me, I will rejoice and be glad in them."
I'm just thinking, that's the way to live. What are you thinking?