from Lucinda Secrest McDowell
"Summertime...and the livin' is easy..."
Well, at least that's how the old song goes, but too many of us stay just as busy in the summer as during the year and then we turn around at Labor Day and wonder where all those "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" went!
I've
just returned from my best friend's home on Cape Cod after a lovely
short holiday and with the sand still between my toes I want to
encourage you to make summer different this year.
Take
some time to
RELAX
READ
WALK BY THE SEA
(or pond or lake or stream)
REFLECT
Don't feel guilty if there are days you don't "accomplish very much"
Just learn how to "be still and know that I am God."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote these words 45 years ago after spending some time at the New England shore ~ it's amazing how true they are to me today:
"My
life in Connecticut, I begin to realize, lacks this quality of
significance and therefore of beauty, because there is so little
empty space. The space is scribbled on; the time has been filled.
There are so few empty pages in my engagement pad, or empty hours in
the day, or empty rooms in my life in which to stand alone and find
myself. Too many activities, and people and things. Too many worthy
activities, valuable things and interesting people. For it is not
merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as
well. We can have a surfeit of treasures ~ an excess of shells~ where
one or two would be significant."
