Going to the Ocean

Project 365 - July 15

Today was another first - the first time we've been to a beach in Maine on a summer day.

That is, if you can call temps in the 60s "summer." :)

We met Lori, her boys, her friend Amanda and Amanda's little brother Ethan in what was nothing less than a miraculous convergence (a good math word thrown in for Lori's enjoyment).

First, traffic was backed up over a mile trying to get into the park, which has limited parking. The first prayer to go up was for a parking space, which was provided with only a handful left.

Second, we couldn't find our friends on the beach, even after asking for divine help, so we picked a spot and set up camp while I tried to figure out what to do and Jed got busy with the sand castle building that was uppermost in his mind. Fifteen minutes later who should walk by but our friends on their way to their stuff which was just on the other side of our next-blanket neighbor.

How's that for sweet reassurance that there is a God in heaven who is personally involved in the lives of His children? Only a loving Heavenly Father would condescend to do something so trivial and yet so kind.

Yea, we are loved with an everlasting love. Jer 31:3





Pictures are of Jed and Ethan playing in the surf.