Celebrate this Week : Family.
[I’ve linked up with Ruth Ayres where bloggers share something they are celebrating.]
I celebrate family every week, but this week it is extra special. On Sunday we all knew we were into the final countdown. A countdown that has lasted ten long months.
It was last July when all of us, all twenty-six of us –my oldest son and family, my daughter and family, my youngest son and family, gathered to hug, cry, say all the things you hadn’t said in the past five weeks, hug some more, then just stand around together, and finally squeeze hug and kiss farewell as my youngest son and family departed for their home in South America.
And so on Mother’s Day our foremost topic was their arrival for this year’s visit. We were down to three days. On Tuesday afternoon the countdown shifted from days to hours. On Wednesday they arrived. And no one has ever seen more hugging, jumping, and squealing as went on between those cousins.
Friday evening the weather was so beautiful we cleaned off our three and a half picnic tables (the half table is the little kids table), fired up the family grill and whipped up an unplanned hamburger / hotdog barbecue (unplanned times are so easy because our backyards run together).
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Five Minute Friday : Truth.
[I’ve linked up with Kate Motaung where bloggers share their five minute quick write on a chosen word.]
TRUTH
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Twenty-two of us around our backyard picnic tables.
Thank you Kate Motaung for hosting.
Read more about Five Minute Friday. #fmfparty
I’m linking up with Ruth Ayres
where bloggers share something
they are celebrating. Thank you Ruth for #Celebratelu.
I can’t think of anything more wonderful than having your children so close!
Backyards that run together… impromptu cookouts… celebration, indeed!
Thank you, Diane!
Congrats on having all of your family together. Nothing is better than that!
Ah! you are so right, Julieanne.
The sweetest time is when everyone is together under one roof – it sounds as though you made the most of your time together.
You are so right, Tara! Together is the sweetest time.
What a wonderful celebration o have your family back together again. I have seen the Five Minute Friday link-up, but have never participated. Not that I need another one, but I like the five minute format. Summer days may be a time to try it out. This line, “But truth is timeless, eternal, without boundaries” is staying with me this morning.
Be sure to let me know if you do join Five Minute Friday link-up. I started participating recently. It was the single word prompt and the five minute format that caught my eye. Have a beautiful week, Leigh Anne!
Love that pic of the family celebration and your five minute Friday writing. Abide was my word for last year and I love being reminded of its importance – “If you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed.”
Thanks, Ramona. And yes, abide is the “secret” of life!
So wonderful to have your whole family together.
It truly is, Margaret!
“no one has ever seen more hugging, jumping, and squealing as went on between those cousins” – this is pure joy.
When we were waiting for them to get to our place from the airport, the cousins said it felt like Cynthia Rylant’s book “The Relatives Came.”
So glad you had all the family together again, Alice. That’s wonderful!
🙂 Thanks, Linda!
This is a great post! I love how you made the contrast between truth and reality, and the reminder that truth is a person. Visiting from #12.
So glad you stopped by, Lesley. 🙂
Alice, love the presentation! I used the exact scriptures because, well, because it’s TRUTH!!!!
I just stopped by your post… yes, “it’s TRUTH!!!!” Thanks for coming by, Susan.
hi alice. i’m your next door neighbor at FMF. interesting how you made the distinction between truth and reality. i’m not sure i had thought of it that way:) nice to meet you.
So glad you stopped by, Martha. I just have to tell you that your name made me do a double take and I thought, I must know her. I said your name a couple times and then knew why it sounded so familiar: in first and second grade, my best friend was named Martha and at that time we lived on Brady Street. Nice to meet you, too!
Love this, Alice! Love the way you presented it (reminds me of the beginning of Richard Bach’s “Illusions”), and the distinction of the dichotomy between truth and reality is awesome.
#1 at FMF this week.
http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2017/05/your-dying-spouse-312-and-there-is-joy.html
Thank you, Andrew. That distinction plays an important part, for me, in accepting what exists in the temporal vs. eternal. What I know by sight and what I know by faith.