DAY
TWENTY-FOUR
One of our favorite episodes of the
British comedy Keeping Up Appearances was when Hyacinth decided that she
wanted to host a “riparian picnic”. When
she invited her guests to join her and Richard on the picnic, they all had to
look up the word “riparian” to find out its meaning. They found out that the picnic would happen
by a river since the word means “by or near a river”. The result of the picnic near the river was
that Hyacinth and Richard ended up getting drenched in the river while the
guests laughed about the ending.
We decided to have a riparian picnic
of our own today. We packed a lunch of
smoked fish (haddock), potato salad, bread, mayonnaise, and cookies with some
iced tea and drove to a little roadside park we had seen when we were driving
in the area last weekend. It is a place
called Hebb’s Landing and it is by the side of the Annapolis River. There is a boat launch there and several
places for picnics to happen. We chose a
covered one by the side of the river.
The wind was blowing briskly but the sun was shining brightly so we
anchored down our paper plates with heavier objects and began the picnic,
putting mayonnaise on bread and scooping up potato salad and munching happily
as we looked up the beautiful blue water of the river running nearby.
One could not have asked for a more
beautiful and tranquil scene for having a picnic or for any other reason. Birds swam in the water. Wildflowers grew in the grasses in our view. We were thankful to be there enjoying this
special moment together.
God gives us special moments in life
to enjoy. Sometimes they are planned, as
was this picnic and there are other times when the moments just happen and we
can bask in the beauty, serenity, and love of the place and the people we may
share the moments with.
Our days in Nova Scotia are winding
down. Soon we will leave the cool
breezes of the Bay of Fundy to return home to the hot winds of our Texas summer
as they give way to the hint of autumn in the air that we hope will come
quickly. Even as we enjoy each of the
remaining days here with the natural beauty and the pleasant feeling air, we
will give thanks for the blessings of being able to share this together with
one another. We will also give thanks to
God for allowing us to enjoy these blessings and for the moments in which we
live.
“The
Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be
gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
“ (Numbers 6:24-26)
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