Wow! It seems like July just flew on by!

We haven’t done any great summer thing but we have been busy.

Our summer has consisted of gardening and I’m still way behind; garage sales, berry picking, making pies,small town concerts, family reunion, fishing. Did I mention fishing? Well, it seems we do that a lot.

Leonard keeps laughing at me for saying,”Let’s do a summery thing”. Our summery thing this week was to grill some of our fish at a park. I packed up a picnic lunch and some fish and we headed for Petoskey. Leonard wanted to go to Bayfront park where they have the little waterfall . There were no grills there, so we ended up going a street up where they always fish for salmon.

Our fish turned out fantastic and it was a pleasant outing. While we were waiting for the grill to heat up, I sat in the pavilion. There was a young girl studying her Bible. I asked if she was studying by subject and she said “no”. She shared with me that she’s part of a youth group and the leader was on vacation and had asked if anyone would want to run the meeting that week and she was excited to do it. She shared with me the content she was sharing. In our conversation, I shared with her about cancer striking twice in my son’s family. When she left, she shared her name and asked my name and my kid’s names as she wanted to pray for them. It just so touched my heart!

Watched the circus with Isaac and had the opportunity to hang out with him again the next day!

Whatever our hearts find to do, the Lord brings joy to it. Whether it be gardening, fishing, bringing pleasure to my husband for baking pie or chance encounter with a special teenager ( of course I don’t believe that was by chance), we continue to be the Lucky Ones! God has been so good to us.