I love surprises, don't you? I received a BIG surprise today...well, not today ~ I was told the surprise today!
May 16th Dave and I will be married 40 years! THAT is a long long time...yet it seems like yesterday! How can that be? Well that is the truth---40 years! He told me this morning he is taking me away for a whole week, a whole week...just he and me!!!! HE and ME!!!! YAY.....We get to have time all to ourselves for a whole week! We will be heading to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and the BEACH! It takes real love, time invested and resources spent to make such plans! True love! Love is action...a verb! It is a noun too ~ but mostly a verb!
We have a 'history' of BEACHES. I grew up 30 minutes from Malibu Beach, California. Dave asked me to marry him late one night at Zuma Beach (that is a whole story for another day!). We spent some of our honeymoon at the BEACH. I guess you could say we are 'beach people' ! We enjoy Sunset Beach, NC and Nags Head, NC so much. I am so excited to visit a new beach, neither of us has seen. So come May, Lord willing, we will drive the 10 hours to visit Hilton Head Island. What excitement and anticipation is in the air!
"The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in you presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalm 16: 5-11 (ESV)
My lines have fallen in pleasant places. The LORD is so good. He is faithful and true. My heart rejoices in His grace given abundantly to us. He has done it, and to HIM we are so grateful!
Our lives are full. Has it always been 'easy'? No it hasn't, lots of tears shed, yet HE is with us always, calling our name. HE really is what life is all about. Happy, sad, frustrated, fulfilled, challenged, easy, mad, glad, disappointed, grieving, rejoicing, hurt, encouraged, helped, alone, together, crushed, built up, poor, rich, naked, full, hungry, searching, seeking, praying, listless, hoping, sick, healthy, loved, hated, gossiped about, full of sin, misunderstood, homesick, lonely, secure, lifted up, surprised, supported, relaxed, quiet, noisy, accused, defended, thought ill of, forgiven, loved, never receiving what we truly deserve which is death! HE has meant it all ....ALL for our good and HIS GLORY! GLORY to JESUS!
40 years! Seems like yesterday we were just starting out as newlyweds. How fast life speeds by. How like a 'vapor' 40 years is. Yes, we are old by some measures! Yet it only gets better and better! I love my honey MORE today than I ever knew I could on our wedding day! Isn't that the way the LORD works?! With HIM it only gets better and better and better! Until one day one of us will lay the other into the arms of Jesus! How GOOD HE TRULY IS!
Surprises are nice! Many are precious here on earth with my lovey Dave! YET the best is yet to come in heaven with THE LOVE of my LIFE Jesus! ---sitting at HIS feet! HE provided the way! Won't that be the BEST of all!
Delighting in Jesus, hugs, Lynette
"The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in you presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalm 16: 5-11 (ESV)
My lines have fallen in pleasant places. The LORD is so good. He is faithful and true. My heart rejoices in His grace given abundantly to us. He has done it, and to HIM we are so grateful!
Our lives are full. Has it always been 'easy'? No it hasn't, lots of tears shed, yet HE is with us always, calling our name. HE really is what life is all about. Happy, sad, frustrated, fulfilled, challenged, easy, mad, glad, disappointed, grieving, rejoicing, hurt, encouraged, helped, alone, together, crushed, built up, poor, rich, naked, full, hungry, searching, seeking, praying, listless, hoping, sick, healthy, loved, hated, gossiped about, full of sin, misunderstood, homesick, lonely, secure, lifted up, surprised, supported, relaxed, quiet, noisy, accused, defended, thought ill of, forgiven, loved, never receiving what we truly deserve which is death! HE has meant it all ....ALL for our good and HIS GLORY! GLORY to JESUS!
40 years! Seems like yesterday we were just starting out as newlyweds. How fast life speeds by. How like a 'vapor' 40 years is. Yes, we are old by some measures! Yet it only gets better and better! I love my honey MORE today than I ever knew I could on our wedding day! Isn't that the way the LORD works?! With HIM it only gets better and better and better! Until one day one of us will lay the other into the arms of Jesus! How GOOD HE TRULY IS!
Surprises are nice! Many are precious here on earth with my lovey Dave! YET the best is yet to come in heaven with THE LOVE of my LIFE Jesus! ---sitting at HIS feet! HE provided the way! Won't that be the BEST of all!
Delighting in Jesus, hugs, Lynette
You are so sweet, and I am so excited about the week in May. You are precious to the Lord and to me.
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