You're where? We're staying with our PP friends Loren and Diane, out in the country, with Rockland to the north, Doucette to the south, Chester to the west, and Town Bluff to the east. Now you know where we are. Right? Anyway, we travelled almost 1100 miles from Fort Collins and are going to spend some time here, just relaxing, enjoying the quiet, getting caught up on our sleep, helping L and D "a little" , reacquainting with Gus, one of my favorite dog friends from the PP and just vegging out.
Years ago, our friends Bill and Zeta were planning to build a Retreat facility at Crystal Lake, CO. They had wooded property at about 9,000 feet which was a place to escape, clear some trees to make room for the proposed Retreat facility and get away from the hustle and bustle of the Colorado front range. The four of us spent many weekends over a number of years on that property, enjoying the quiet, the work and the dream B and Z envisioned. But, the pine beetles had a different idea for the property and it was soon obvious, the dream was not to be. The trees are mostly gone, the property has been sold and God set them in a different direction, a home on the front range with a lake in their backyard and a gorgeous west-facing view of the front range mountains.
And now, we find ourself on a mountaintop of sorts, only at 320 feet above sea level, in East Texas, on wooded property with a modest house out our front window, enjoying a peaceful, quiet, pleasant day, 76 degrees at noon, Karen dozing off in the recliner of our motor home, me back from a walk in the woods having had my devotional and journaling time. No plans, no expectations, no timetable, no place to go........and, as strange as it seems to us.......needing it and loving it. We really don't know "how to act" since this is really new to us. God rested from His work and called us to do the same, and we will do so until the cloud moves again, and we answer God's call, whenever and wherever it may be. Blessed and thankful.
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