Today was an early start for me... I woke up at the crack of 9am! Did some reading in the morning and afternoon before the rest of the family started to arrive. It was a relatively lazy day and that's alright by me.
Got to spend some good time with various family members as they started rolling into camp. It's always exciting to see the campground start to fill up for the weekend. Never a dull moment camping over the 4th of July weekend...quiet, relaxing mixed with loud and boisterous, yes, but never dull...
We finished off the night sitting around the campfire, staying up later than we should... but, hey, we're camping, right? Tonight's snack was hotdogs... nothing quite like a hotdog, polish sausage, or kielbasa slowly cooked over an open pit fire. That's how you should end a day when you're out camping....
Our family gatherings over the 4th of July and Christmas have always been joyful and wonderful times. However, this weekend is bitter sweet. Like I mentioned yesterday, not everyone can make it every year and this year is now different in that respect. But this is the first time that we have gathered here at the campground where one of our family members will never be able to join us again... and it's just not the same...
My mom shared this passage with us before dinner tonight:
Got to spend some good time with various family members as they started rolling into camp. It's always exciting to see the campground start to fill up for the weekend. Never a dull moment camping over the 4th of July weekend...quiet, relaxing mixed with loud and boisterous, yes, but never dull...
We finished off the night sitting around the campfire, staying up later than we should... but, hey, we're camping, right? Tonight's snack was hotdogs... nothing quite like a hotdog, polish sausage, or kielbasa slowly cooked over an open pit fire. That's how you should end a day when you're out camping....
Our family gatherings over the 4th of July and Christmas have always been joyful and wonderful times. However, this weekend is bitter sweet. Like I mentioned yesterday, not everyone can make it every year and this year is now different in that respect. But this is the first time that we have gathered here at the campground where one of our family members will never be able to join us again... and it's just not the same...
My mom shared this passage with us before dinner tonight:
Romans 5: 1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.We have an expression the we often repeat with each other that went "Great Joy," accompanied by raising you hands in the air and shaking them like you just don't care. This year we might not feel the "Great Joy" that we have had in the past but we still have "Great Hope" given to us my our Savior. And for that, I am thankful...
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