In earthly peace

I went to St. Boniface Church, Siesta Key for the Tuesday a.m. Eucharist today.


After the Eucharist I went out to the Myakka River State Park.


http://www.floridastateparks.org/MyakkaRiver/



It is such a beautiful and peace filled place. I sat for more than half an hour in silence (so hard for me!), simply soaking up the quietness and beauty. It was a joy to listen to the sound which the breeze created as it whisked through the long grasses and the trees.

How blessed I am to live so near to such a gorgeous place. We heard human voices from Germany, Russia, Spain and France.

The speakers of these languages had travelled many, many miles to be at Myakka. It is a 25 minute drive for me!

On Christmas Eve I will drive for about 9 hours to be with my friends the Hauler Family, gathering this year in Beaufort, SC. I was with them last year in Pensacola FL.

I am happy that I will be with these friends whom I first met in 1976. The Haulers who met and loved my mother, (and other members of my family) , here in the USA and also in England.


I will drive back here on Boxing Day. So I’ll not be “blogging” until Saturday 27th December.I wish you well for Christmas, and leave you with one of my favourite Christmas poems:

This is the irrational season
when love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
there'd have been no room for the child.

- Madeleine L'Engle

Comments

  1. Brian R23 December 2008 at 18:55

    Wishing you and Gabriel safe travels and a merry Christmas celebrating with your friends.

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  2. Elizabeth Kaeton27 December 2008 at 14:15

    Merry Christmas, darling.

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