Summer Daze

How was your summer? Does it seem like just yesterday school was ending? Does it feel like it was a blur of activity? Or did you have an expectation in mind for what summer would look like and when it didn't happen that way, you felt disappointed? I can easily do that.

It was beginning to happen to me a couple of weeks ago. I was beginning to feel sorry for myself because I hadn't been having/doing summerish kinds of things to the extent I had expected. But then I had to stop myself and think through just exactly what my summer was like. You will notice a common number: #1.

#of evenings at the ocean: 1
#of times to walk the boardwalk with a friend: 1
#of times to get in a pool: 1
#of times to get to "Cook's Night Out": 1
#of times to go to "Jump-In": 1
#of times to sit with a friend on her patio: 1

1 - Family Reunion in Maine
1 - Week of ministry in Maine
1- Family Reunion in NH
1 -Youth Camp
1 - Day trip to Cape May with Tim

It has helped me to make a list and take an objective look at what the Lord has allowed me to do. Besides all the wonderful happenings listed above, there were other very happy, fulfilling and rewarding moments. This exercise sure beats being down in the dumps and sinfully complaining about what wasn't in my summer.

And now I can "smile at the future" of autumn, school, the routine, the holidays and know that God has something special in mind for that as well.

Psalm 90:12, "So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom."