harmony

harmony....that is how i would like to live....in harmony. sometimes my life is such discord. it was full of discord this past month and finally i had just about had it.....i needed to take some time away. so, i did.

i have really been missing my sister too. sometimes it is easier than others....often it is good, and grief does eventually turn to joy, but there are still times when sadness prevails.....that is because she was loved....

when my sister was early in her battle against cancer, we--my two sisters and my mother--came to cambria for a trip before she would become to ill to travel. it was the first of many trips here, the last one being in may of this past year. she passed away in september. i thought that it would be really hard to come here again, and i was right. it was. but it was also easy. and peaceful, and healing.....

i got to see places we went together and relive memories.

i got to go to my bench, there it is, off in the distance....isn't it a beautiful place? peaceful and restful....

and sit, and knit, and read my bible. jeremiah 31 is a special chapter to me, and in it, it does promise that God will "turn their mourning into joy, and give them consolation and bring happiness out of grief." and, He does. and He did for me today.

I believe in divine appointments.

My sister Joan has been blessed with a dear friend that has a home here in cambria that we have had the pleasure of stay at when we came. my sister ruth loved it here. i thought that perhaps her friend would be in residence (this is a second home--she lives and works several hours away from here) and, i had only seen one picture of her one time, but wanted to stop by her home and meet her and tell her how much staying at her home had meant to us all--she already knew thru Joan, but i still wanted to meet her.....she wasn't home, but i knew she was in residence because i saw her dog was there....so, i went on down to the boardwalk at the preserve to go to my bench. not 2 steps onto the boardwalk did a see a woman that i thought was her...i said her name and she said yes....

a divine appointment.

i introduced myself and we talked for a long time about how healing it is in this place and how much it meant to my sisters and me. and, that i had come there for ministering to my spirit and soul....she asked me to stop by her home, and i thought that i was not ready for that yet, but on my way out, i would be stopping to take a picture of her house.....so, off i went to my bench.....

i read jeremiah 31, i read colossians 3 and i prayed and i listened to God.....it was really healing......he restoreth my soul.....

so, on my way out, i stop to take a picture of my friends house

and there she is, in the big kitchen window, we wave and i find that i am ready to go into her home. so, i spent about an hour with her on her deck having a glass of wine and watching the ocean and chatting....what a part of my healing.....it was certainly not the way that i thought i was going to spend my day, but it sure is how God wanted it to be....

i went down to moonstone beach....... and walked in the water

and took pictures

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and wrote in the sand

found some beautiful stones and even some moonstones--

now, i am back in my hotel, and am ready to go home tomorrow---renewed and refreshed, and with a resolve to live more in harmony with my family--i hope they are ready to do the same.......