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Resting, Remembering and Enjoying My Family

Tomorrow I'm going on vacation with my family. Very kind friends let us use their place down in Florida. My little girl keeps asking when we're going on "cation." She asks if we'll see whales and sharks. Somehow someone made her aware of sharks. She says she wants to stay in the pool.

Last year I sat on the beach on the brink of starting work on a new book. I told God I didn't see how it could possibly happen, how I could possibly write it. But he enabled me day by day. I'm going to sit on that beach this year and just take time to thank him and remember and marvel at answered prayer. Milestones like that mean a lot to me.

The laptop is staying at home. It doesn't get to go on vacation. I'm going to turn off the email on my phone. No Twitter. No internet. I might go without electricity and indoor plumbing just for the heck of it. (Okay, maybe not.)

Small thing for people who have read this blog for awhile: we're going to rent a car this year. Our friends Wayne and Connie offered to let us borrow theirs again, but I just couldn't.

We aren't too intense when it comes to vacation. We like simple. Pool. Beach. Food. Pool. Beach. Joshua Quinn and I are excited to watch the French Open and root on Roger Federer. The girls like to watch cooking shows on the Food Network. I've got two books on Lincoln I'm going to read. I really enjoy history. I like reading about other people's problems. Makes mine seem smaller.

I'm going to wake up every morning and go read my Bible on the beach. It's kind of God to give me this time of rest with the four people I love the most in this world.

Comments (11)

Enjoy! They are meant to be enjoy. God bless.

Posted by tc robinson | June 3, 2009 11:01 PM

May you enjoy rich times with your family. Thanks for how you and your family serve SGM, CLC and the NEXT Conf. We are all beneficiaries of your service (and your family's service as well). May God bless you with much enjoyment of this time and refresh you in His grace. Grace to you and your family...we'll be praying for you!

Posted by Jeremy | June 4, 2009 9:13 AM

Certainly you are having a blessed vacation!

All the best.

Posted by Emily | June 4, 2009 10:06 AM

Very nice post. I hope you and your family have a wonderful vacation! :)

Posted by Iris | June 4, 2009 8:28 PM

Bravo on leaving the laptop behind.:) From one pastor's family to another...have a great, great time together and with the Lord.

Posted by Heather | June 6, 2009 6:16 PM

Thank you! Hoping and praying you have a great "Cation". Your daughter is so cute.

Posted by Darcy | June 9, 2009 11:47 AM

Thanks for this post. May seem strange, but it helped me in thinking about enjoying my own vacation time when it comes. Enjoy.

Posted by Brad | June 9, 2009 1:48 PM