Friday, April 20, 2007

Summer

It is carefree; it has a breathy air to it. It’s so great to open all of the windows, feel the breeze in the musty over wintered house. See the brighter sun as it warms up everything. Summer brings plants, life, bugs, BBQ parties, swimming, hiking, camping, golf, vacation, lazy naps that lets you dream about all of the things you could be doing. It takes away winter blahs and makes you whole being feel renewed, refreshed and revised. It lets you make new goals and brings a fresh start to all of the things needing done that could not be done when it was cold. One of my favorite things about summer is the sounds of birds, their voices waking me to start a new day in a good mood. I love summer parties; they bring great stories and old friends out to share in life. They bring good, wholesome foods. It’s awesome to work hard in the garden, work up a hot dirty sweat with backs bowed and knees grimy and creaking to labor around some of Gods beautiful bounty that He gave us to enjoy in great satisfaction. He knew what he was doing when He made the 4 seasons. Summer brings a great harvest and a gathering of all of the long light filled days. It brings us produce and keeping of harvest to sustain His people in the midst of winter and their dreadful blahs. It brings hope to tired hearts, it brings reprieve of what we strive to be done with, it is newness and hope.

5 comments:

Kyle said...

Summer means baseball too. Go tribe!

Laura said...

Thank you Kyle! I was totally trying to think of some other things that summer brings! DUH!! Baseball exactly is summer too!

Andrew said...

Tribe?...Twins all the way!

Andrew said...

Nice post laura, I really enjoyed it.

3rd string's finest said...

Great post, Cuz. I Love summer and I Love that we are happy. I look foward to enjoying a summer with you around, Cause last summer with you and our friends definitley set the standard to which all other summers from here on will be judged.