A Place to Get Connected . . .
Music of choice at the moment:
Mercy Me – I can Only Imagine, Homesick, Here with Me
Missy Higgins
Damien Leith
Although you can’t always rely on Sandy Cove for a wireless internet connection, sometimes when that fails you can find yourself getting connected to something or someone even better and more deserving of our connection. Someone who can often get pushed aside, forgotten, or even replaced by the connection of the internet . . .
So tonight as I sat outside in frustration while the Sandy Cove wireless failed me for about the sixth time today, I eventually gave in, closed the lid on my laptop and sat in awe of the amazing view laying before me. Almost as if it had been gift-wrapped and placed in the sky for my viewing and enjoyment alone. However, looking just a few meters in front of me sat couples on the benches, and others on the Adirondack chairs, youth throwing a football, and families poking their heads out to catch a glimpse and take a photo. Behind me, on the other side of the glass windows, sat an elderly couple enjoying the gift from comfy armchairs in the air-conditioning. No, the gift can’t be just for me . . . it is for anyone who is willing to take the time to come, sit, stand . . . and connect with the giver of the gift that is there for all to enjoy if only they accept it.
So if you haven’t figured it out yet I’m back at Sandy Cove for the summer, where I often find myself getting caught up and carried away in my writing – especially when sitting in front of a Sandy Cove sunset. :-P
Sandy Cove is amazing as always – families are beginning to fill the lodge and you can just feel the happy (for lack of a better word) vibes of families coming together for an awesome time of fun and fellowship with old friends and new.
Realizing this is the first time I have been here and not known for sure what is next in my life . . . the first year it was college, last year I had already figured out I would be going to Australia. But this year no set in stone plans yet. I have Black Rock in the works and think that will be the next step but yeah still not definite and even then it’s only short term. This isn’t a bad place to be though when you don’t know what’s next. A good place for reflection and thinking . . . .
Idealistic? Just thinking about how this is such a great place for families to come connect with each other and their maker but then I think of those who don’t have solid families and those who don’t even know of their maker and wonder . . . . This is great but is it reaching those who already have solid connections? Is there enough or anything out there for those who could really benefit but are lacking that connection. . . . hummmm I guess we get a mix of campers; pulic school, private, chirsitan, non-chrisitan, solid families, broken ones . . .
Now this is becoming very Laura – like; stream of consciousness, little blips of my thoughts :-P
I should probably get back to filling out this Black Rock application. Praying God will lead me where he wants me next, enjoying the Marsh, and still . . . really, really, really missing Australia; the job, the people, the place (not necessarily in that order).
So this is actually a photo from two years ago, tonights sunset was heaps nicer but I didn't have my camera on me.
