Making Memories!
Are your days filled with loneliness? Do you dread facing another day? Talk to someone.
“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come” (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
How do you spend your summer holidays?
Some of our family’s happiest times were spent in the Great Outdoors.
During the month of July, our family of seven would be in the raspberry fields picking berries. The children could keep their earnings as spending money. Then August was vacation month.
Arriving at the Inkameep campground in Osoyoos, we’d pitch our tents and dock the canoe. After a good swim our children would be off to meet the neighbor’s kids. In the evening, our picnic table often became the meeting place of happy card games.
So many happy memories were made this way! But one memory stands out.
My husband wanted our family to experience one of the wonders of nature. So, one dark August evening we left tent-city and walked toward the sand dunes.
We climbed a sand dune and sat down, digging our bare feet into the warm sand. Quietly we listened to the sounds of a warm summer night: a splash in the water, cicadas chirping, a bat in flight…Gradually, the dark silhouette of the mountains became etched in light, then a bright full moon popped over the hills like a balloon that had been held under water.
As the moonlight bathed the country side, we saw horses grazing in a meadow just below us, a canoe coming towards the shore…We imagined they were pirates!
More than thirty years have passed. All five of our children are grown and some have families of their own now. Guess how they are spending some of their vacations? In the Great Outdoors, of course.
Dear God, thank you for creating a beautiful world for us to enjoy. Help us to take better care of it.
Questions: What are your holiday plans? Why not plan some family activities in the Great Outdoors. The memories you build into your children will last forever.
