A Vacation

on the beach

In the above photo, it is hard to see, but I am a bit off the ground.  Not much, the photographer caught me in the air-but  just as I was coming back down.  Watching the sun rise that morning was peaceful, and thought provoking.  GOD is good, HE alone can paint the sky a beautiful color, allow it to reflect in the waters below...
...this photo was taken by a dear friend while we were on the beach at the Christian Midwives Conference in the year of 2010, in South Carolina...

Well, life continues ...it has been several weeks since my mother has passed away.  It is unbelievable -thinking from the human way to think-that I will never see her again while I am living on this earth.  It has been 19 years since my dad passed, and it is easier with all the time that has passed, but thinking about him being gone can still can make me cry.

It has been a difficult year.  Too many deaths.     The beginning of this year, my only brother died....I was able to be with him as he passed into eternity.  Thankfully he accepted Christ prior to his death...just 12 hours before he died.  

To have a brother and a mother die...well to not admit my frailness, would be a lie. 


Scott and I went to Colorado in July, for the Christian Midwives Conference.  But it was a working vacation for me.  The drive out, we almost over heated (him and I-not the truck thank GOD) it was during that extreme heat time the country experienced.  

When I am at the conference, it is all about work. Even though the area is nice, it is still about work.  We took a couple of days after the conference, but not as many as we wanted.  While at the conference, there were a few things that we had to do/spend money where we had not planned and thus had to take it from our budget for our vacation.  So we went home sooner than we had planned.  Taught me a lesson to be a bit more bold with some people so this would not happen again.  Lessons are always learned. 

So that was a working vacation for me, but Scott was able to relax well.  I am thankful for that.  But me-I need a break.
I planned on a road trip with a friend and my sister.  We were to go to see my friend who moved to South Dakota.  The one friend backed out-I just could not get a commitment from her.  And my sister and I could not afford to go with out a third person to help share the costs. 


What I have to do is continue to depend on HIM for my rest, resting on the sabbath and really resting.  Since my vacations do not come often enough!