R & R & what love looks like

In the interest of full disclosure, I do need to confess that not all of our time in south Texas was spent working in the heat. The three youngest H girls had the privilege and pleasure of spending the week 175 miles east, temporarily adopted as members of the F clan. And then, at the end of our week, K, J, and I joined them.

What a treat, and what a relaxing end to our trip. It was a few days of home away from home. Highlights include worship at Covenant, celebrating E's birthday, singing and guitar playing, a day on the South Padre Island beach,

dinner at the Rainbow Cafe, hunting down bargains at the outlet mall, reading stories with young un's on an air mattress, and of course, laughing, laughing, laughing with children and adults alike.

In If, Amy Carmichael writes of "the Eternal Things, and the greatest of these is love." She reminds, "... it is the dear human love about us that bathes us as in summer seas and rests us through and through. Can we ever cease to wonder at the love of our companions? And then suddenly we recognize our Lord in them. It is His love that they lavish upon us. O Love of God made manifest in Thy lovers, we worship Thee."

Thanks for showing us a sweet glimpse of such love, F family. We'll be back. :-)