Boy it was a week...

Barbara and I have been in South Mississippi for a few days just to be away. I don’t know what a vacation is or what you do on a vacation. I asked Barbara what people do on vacation she did not know either. It seems like we do more on vacation than when we are not and yet also do less than when we are not.

I have had a nap each day. Now that is a good vacation practice. I have pulled weeds in several flower beds, not normal. We repainted some patio furniture and hung a ceiling fan. Rearranged two rooms and rebuilt an old floor lamp with parts from a discontinued wall fixture from Lowe’s with new wiring. It now looks like it was made that way from the factory. Shopping was all a part of these adventures getting ideas and repurposing items to meet our needs. That is not what I intended to do.

I brought four books with me a devotional book by Max Lucado, a Bible J.B. Phillips translation (that’s what I am reading from now, a book by Andy Stanley that I began earlier this year and just quit and a book for and to pastors. I can say I have read the devotion book daily, the Bible every other day, the preacher’s book some last night and the Stanley book zero. That is less than what I had planned to do.

We are about a mile from the gulf and only went there one evening. I thought we might be in the water more. I guess not. Vacations go like that for us. I don’t know if that is planning or the lack of planning that makes them like that. They just are. Yet, we have done exactly what we wanted when we wanted with the exceptions for the weather.

The same week included a tropical storm and the 69^th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Europe. All while on vacation. Is there really ever a vacation from life? No not really just a change of scenery from your normal situation. I am certain it’s time to go home. I am tired and need to go back to the normal schedule to rest. Oh wait Camp Crossroads is next week (VBS). That means no rest. I will need a vacation after that.

Maybe the answer to the vacation question (what is it) is rest. But we don’t rest on vacation at least I don’t. Hebrews speaks of entering God’s rest. Do we need a vacation to enter God’s rest? No, we need to enter God’s rest in a daily meeting of prayer, scripture and stillness. We don’t need a vacation to begin that practice. But, it might be good time to start on vacation.

Hey there’s an idea go on vacation and enter God’s rest.

In HIS Service and Yours,

BroG