my spirit rejoices

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look.....To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry Thoreau

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Camping

We did a little impromtu camping trip this past week. We WERE going to stay for 2 nights, but since Naomi and I didn't get much sleep the first night, we decided to cut out early. Still, we overall had a lovely time with super weather and a beautiful lake!
Sissy in her normal state of being these days. Oh, the angst of the teenage years! :)










Well, another thing I gave up on was cooking, but the kids didn't mind a little lunch at Golden Corral ;)
Some pooped out campers on the way home!
at 6:11 PM

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw
And it is this humanity of Jesus that makes visible what is divine in him,
which makes him manifest to us as God. Frenzy of any kind - even if it is
'religious' zeal and frenzy - is totally alien to the man of the New
Testament. Think about it: Every time that we believe we are absolutely
indispensable, every time we think that the world and the Church depend on
our tireless activity, we over-value ourselves.

It is not that I wish to sing the praises of laziness, but I do wish to
suggest a certain change in the table of virtues as it has evolved in the
Western world, for which only action counts as a legitimate and conceivable
activity - whereas meditation, wonder, self-communion and silence are seen
to be indefensible and worthless, or at the very least, 'activities' that
need to be justified.

Benedict XVI

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