A fresh bouquet of flowers gets the weekend started! Now.....time to relax!
How do you relax? How do you restore? How do you refresh? For sure, today everyone seems to lead such a busy life. It is still important to have those times of rest and restoration. In the beautiful little book Gift from THE SEA , Ann Morrow Lindbergh writes how at the beach as one begins to relax, " the tired body takes completely over. As on shipboard, one descends into a deck-chair apathy. One is forced against one's mind, against all tidy resolutions, back into the primeval rhythms of the seashore. Rollers on the beach, wind in the pines, the slow flapping of herons across sand dunes, drown out the hectic rhythms of city and suburb, time tables and schedules. One falls under their spell, relaxes, stretches out prone. One becomes, in fact, like the element on which one lies, flattened by the sea: bare, open empty as the beach, erased by today's tides of all yesterdays's scribblings." Isn't that what we hope for? To let go is good. She goes on to say as the week at the seashore progresses," we are able to lie open, choiceless as a beach~waiting for a gift from the sea." Who really knows what God will bring you today? Let today be a gift!
What a pretty site you have Penelope. I'm a regular on Vicki's French Essence as well. Gift From The Sea is one of my perennial favorites! I relax by walking on the beach. :)
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