I am sitting out on a picnic bench surrounded by the Colorado Rockies. The silence is surreal. In the quietness, I can hear creation in all it’s glory. The Rio Grande flows to my left, to the right a strange chirping. As I look up to the mountain, I see a cross, standing powerfully alone. This is a beautiful place.
We are on vacation. We have been to Red River, New Mexico for a couple of days, and now are in Southfork, Colorado, at Goodnight’s Lonesome Dove RV and Cabin Park. Our cabin is the “Pea Eye”. At this moment Rick is hiking up the mountain with the camps dog, Rockie. A great dog!
It feels wonderful to get away from the business of life. The slow pace a vacation can allow is much needed and we are really good at enjoying it. It’s October, so we have warm days and cold nights. My kind of weather! Neither one of us cares too much about activity. We are simple that way. We enjoy the beauty of creation in all its forms. We did go into Taos, New Mexico a couple of days ago. We enjoyed it, but after a dozen or so stores, they begin to all look the same. Rick did find a hat. I found some earrings and little bracelets for our girls.
Back at home, once again our lives have taken a big turn as Kristin and Kylie and Karlie moved in with us a few weeks ago. The arrangement has been working out fine. We are enjoying each one of them immensely. Yes, we love the privacy afforded us when it was just the two of us. But it seems God just keeps putting this little family on our doorstep. We figure there is a reason, and we know they are being raised in a home full of love and affection. So we will continue as we have been called to do; to minister to the hurting in whatever ways God chooses.
“Do you love me?, asks Jesus of Peter. “Then feed my sheep.” God gives many opportunities to us so that we may feed his sheep. If we are too involved in the business of life, we may well miss those times. I’m guilty of allowing myself to get too involved in work. I am trying to be more aware of this and instead to take time out, to look around and to listen. Vacation has reminded me of that. Something else I am reminded of…I don’t have to come to the mountains to experience God’s great creation. Some of His greatest creations can be found right in my home and I can’t wait to give them big hugs and kisses.
God Bless,
Tracie
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