Dreaming from North Carolina

This is a journal entry that I wrote on June 2nd, and admittedly is the only good journal entry I wrote all summer. The rest are quick scribbles in between meetings or camps :) I also appologize for not updating since....well, a while ago. Its been a crazy year.

Summer is busting into the mountains, encouraging the flowers to bloom and urging each person to welcome its presence. There is no doubt, I am. I believe I was inviting it long before it arrived. And with summer days peeking through the sunrise and still finding their way into cool, peaceful summer nights, my dear friend has shooed school away and left me with nothing to do. Two more weeks must come and go before camp arrives, and while I should be appreciating the long, peaceful days before the hustle and bustle, I am still aching for something to do. Currently, I am in the middle of my second of many boredom breaker books books to come. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is my current reader, and I finished "Mary, Bloody Mary" in two days. That is, yesterday and the day before. I have also been reading "Face to Face With God" by Bill Johnson, but I wouldn't call that rich literature. The one (and maybe only) good thing about in-between times is that I have time to write, free of research and grammatical correctness, and I may read whatever I please- with no need to remember the tedious details for book reports. There is simply something about reading classical literature out of my own free will, rather than under the instruction of a teacher, that makes me appreciate it the way it should be appreciated.

You know those moments in life....the ones that you personally will never forget, but wish somehow you could share with the people you love and have them admire that frozen moment in time even half as much as you do?

Imagine nine acres, with a house in the middle and flowers blooming all across the field in the gardens, and along the fence line. Consider freshly cut grass, a tractor cutting down the long strands of hay in the field, and tomatoes creeping out of their vines in the garden. Bare feet, the comfort of shade under a tree, and birds carefreely (is that a word?) singing about their gladness that summer has arrived. I wish you could be here with me. My assumption is that if you're reading this, you are someone that I love dearly. And, as someone I love dearly, I want nothing less than to experience one of my most favorite things in life...."moments." I find that one of the most important things you can do is, take a few seconds....or minutes, or hours, when you find yourself in such a beautiful position, and live out that moment- don't take it for granted. Sit under a tree, light a candle, drink a cup of tea, laugh until you have tears in your eyes, plant a seed, pack a picnic.....basically anything that has qualifications to be on the back of a "Life Card" in The Game of Life. But, don't let times like these slip by you in vain. Life simply is much too full of sad, hard, and arduous times to not sit back and pause at the few events that make us smile. It surely is not that occurrences like these take us out of reality- they make us realize that life and reality aren't all horrid. In fact, they can be wonderful.