What a beautiful weekend! Live music Friday night. This is a tradition I intend to keep up. Saturday morning was a trip to Athens to the local Farmer’s Market. I got fresh farm eggs, sweet potatoes, a small rhubarb pie, and some really great artisanal pepper jack cheese. Yummmm! Afterwards, we went across town and rode our bikes for an hour (about 12 miles) on a beautiful path along the river. It meandered through the woods and farms. It felt so good to go out and pump my legs and feel the burn. To feel the wind across my face reminded me I’m indeed in my second childhood…that time when we aren’t too old to play outside and we don’t have to necessarily “mind”.
It’s the simplest things that bring a smile to my lips these days. After the ride, we joined a dozen or so others from the bike club and had lunch at a Mexican restaurant. I took a lovely nap when I got home and a friend of mine came up to the river to camp in her trailer parked here. Five of us gals got together at a local restaurant for dinner and laughed for a couple of hours. My friend came over to my camper for breakfast Sunday and I made pancakes. I think she’s my first guest for a meal in my new “home”. Unfortunately, I have so much stuff in my camper, I had to move things around in order to find a place to sit, but I’m making progress…slowly but surely.
Peace. It means different things at different stages in life. Finishing this downsizing project has created more chaos in my living space, but I know from experience that if I keep going, the reward will be a peaceful life. It’s amazing how little storage space there is in here. My focus has been to create ways to store more stuff. I think I need to reshape that to be “how to get the stuff that I actually NEED down to what will fit.” My friend and I were talking over breakfast. How many outfits do I really need? I lived all winter with what clothes fit in a small shirt closet and a suitcase. I didn’t feel deprived and I was well dressed when I went out. It’s hard to let go of perfectly good things. I was actually beginning to consider trading in this camper for one with more storage but that’s ridiculous. Unfortunately, I have discovered the back of my truck doesn’t stay dry during driving rainstorms. I’m going to have to have them seal it better because some things got really wet and ruined. I’m just glad I didn’t have all my clothes hung back there. These are the bugs I’m working out. I just have to keep telling myself I’m still building this life…it’s a work in progress. Peace.
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“for God is not a God of confusion but of peace…”
1 Corinthians 14:33