A glance across the lake brings on many different feelings; excitement, remorse, and anticipation. I stood there and mainly just took in the beauty of the gift I was given and experienced the serenity of God’s landscape.  A few ducks had slid by so quietly.  I heard cars speeding  by in the distance.  Even the mosquitos tried to invade in on my moment of peace.  Standing there I slipped back to my childhood when the neighbors would head over and it was not so quiet as a football game would be held or splashing along the shore would shoo the ducks off to a nearby field.  My parents would be in the house with my dad watching a show that he would be sleeping through and my mother twisting her hair while reading a book as a load of laundry was spinning in the washing machine.  

This night though in that moment of quiet I felt that bit of excitement for one of my favorite seasons; autumn. A time when God paints some of the most beautiful tapestries for mankind to be awestruck by.  At the same time remorse comes along as summer has gone so fast and colder weather sneaks in and will rattle my older bones.  I can though anticipate celebrating Christmas where the grandchildren’s smiles will beam around the tree and my children beaming at their own children or loving on their nieces and nephews.  My heart fills with more pride as another year goes by as my children age into even more spectacular beings and my grandchildren fill my heart with more love than I ever thought it could hold.  

The time spent taking in all this beauty made my heart swell with an array of emotion; those trees in their splash of color, the mirrored water…God’s painting emotes so much beauty that carries on through to show me in my own simple life to take hold of my own life’s tapestry changes and grasp hold of the anticipation, the excitement, even the remorse.  There is simply so much beauty in life to withhold and hold within my heart.