Well we conducted yet another beautiful wedding this weekend at Honey Lake Plantation Resort and Spa. A good time was had by all 250 attendees. Most everyone has been electing to get married in our stunning church, but this bride wanted to get married outdoors underneath some centuries old stately oak trees appropriately adorned with Spanish moss.
The audience sat in white chairs located on the green lawn facing Honey Lake. The bride arrived in a horse drawn buggy and walked underneath a sprawling limb that stretched out fifty feet all of the way to the ground forming a natural tunnel. She proceeded under the tunnel limb and down the aisle to a gorgeous white arbor where her smiling husband to be was waiting for her.
Nice!
But had it been me, I would have opted for the church with its awesome stained glass windows and spectacular cross inset windows overlooking the lake. I went in there today and just sat for a while and could feel God’s presence blanket me. Of course I can feel His presence outside as well, but that place is just special to me, (plus it’s air conditioned). I told a friend of mine that I believe I could sit in there all day.
As I get older I notice and appreciate what God has created so much more than when I was young. My son and his family came down from their home in Atlanta for the wedding and they stayed in the Pansy Ireland Poe cottage situated right on Honey Lake. My three year old grandson with help from his dad excitedly told me that throughout the weekend he saw a bald eagle snatch a fish from the lake, an otter racing down the bank, and a junior size alligator, (which he referred to as a “crocodile”), lazily floating just in front of the picture window of the cottage. The real show came at sunset when the sky turned purple pinkish red and silhouetted the flocks of white egrets lazily flying across the lake towards their roost.
I was talking to someone this weekend who was griping up a storm. The country is in a mess; Obama is renting a house for $50,000 per week (paid for by US taxpayers) to vacation and play golf and have a merry old time in Martha’s Vineyard while the United States economy is tanking; then he told me his back hurts; our brave soldiers are getting slaughtered in foreign lands and yet the liberal media barely covers it, preferring instead to try and catch some Republican candidate in a gaffe; prices are so high now he cannot afford to buy groceries; he is bored silly; etc. etc. Nothing is going right.
I felt like hanging myself after listening to his 30 minute tirade
Finally he took a breath and I mentioned that football season was right around the corner. This guy loves football and all of a sudden his entire demeanor changed in an instant. He began excitedly enumerating the great draft his team had and how he felt that just maybe this year they could go all of the way. Suddenly all of his woes were miles away.
Hmmm…Are you down today. Maybe you’re focusing on the wrong things too. Try to think of something you love that is positive. There have always been and always will be bad things to focus on, but if we will take time to think positive, there are plenty of good things in this world too.
Abraham Lincoln once said, that folks are just about as happy as they want to be“. French novelist Colette said: “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner”.
I wish this bloke would have realized some of this stuff. I was in a good mood until he started carping about every bad thing under the sun. Why rain on MY parade? I’m happy, or at least I was. Jeez…Go back to bed and get up on the other side already you miserable louse… GET A LIFE!
Yikes! I need to heed my own advice – eh?
Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.