I recently returned from a long weekend getaway at Chestnut Bay Resort on Lake Weiss in North Alabama with my family. Although it was a quick trip, it was absolutely wonderful, nonetheless. It was the ideal blend of relaxing, outdoor activities, family time and just simply letting my hair down (or, really throwing it in a ponytail). This vacation allowed me to refocus and de-clutter my mind for a bit. Everyone should have a vacation, at some point. It is good for the soul.
They are the cutest nephews ever.
Fun poolside.
The whole gang.
Lovely.
In addition to mini-vacation, I have been praying for a change in attitude about certain situations in my life. There are many things that, for so long, I've looked at as negative things in my life. Well, I believe that I'm in this stage of life for a purpose and I should do nothing but rejoice in that. It is not always easy to have this mindset, but I have to take a permanent vacation from looking at the glass half empty. I have to do this for myself and, more importantly, for the God I serve and who gave me this life that I'm living. It is His, and He deserves nothing less than my best. I read this excerpt from Oswald Chamber's My Utmost for His Highest last night and I took a lot from its meaningful message....
"If I will do my duty, not for duty’s sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ."
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