A Dream Come True...

I've been married now for 2 1/2 years. It's been a learning experience for both my husband and I, constantly learning "husband/wife" stuff. It's funny how many people go into marriage imagining something and really seeing it for what it is later. It's so much more than you ever really dream about. I'm learning that I love my husband more and more each day, and that with each new day we grow more with each other.

I've been hoping that we would grow closer to Christ through each other for a long time, but trying to figure out how to do that has been harder than it seems. When my husband came home from his recent trip, he'd changed. Grown, perhaps, in a different way. He pushed me to begin reading my bible and then did exactly as he said I should. I felt that he was teaching me something new.

Funny thing is, he was doing just that. (And he probably doesn't know it.) He was teaching me how to find another level of intimacy with Christ, and yet another bond with him.

My husband really is a dream come true.

Summertime...

"Summertime....and the living is easy." Not only is this song one of my favorites from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, but my favorite version of it is sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. It seems to encompass all that is summertime from my childhood and summers I long to come.
It's taken from a lullaby and has such a carefree feeling to it, it makes you want to throw on a sundress, spread out a blanket and lie in the middle of a field watching the day pass you by. Perhaps you might go to the creek's edge and cool your feet, read a book, take it easy.
That's what summer is for me. June is my month to calm down from the school year, then get some things accomplished. Then...I have July to stop and enjoy myself. I've done a good job this summer of relaxing and taking it easy. The first summer in a while I've truly done this.
School is starting back up soon, and I feel that same feeling in my soul to begin the busy bee actions to get prepared for the new "year". But, for the last couple of days of July... I'll take it mostly easy.

Summertime,

And the livin' is easy

Fish are jumpin'

And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich

And your mamma's good lookin'

So hush little baby

Don't you cry

One of these mornings

You're going to rise up singing

Then you'll spread your wings

And you'll take to the sky

But till that morning

There's a'nothing can harm you

With daddy and mamma standing by

Enjoy......

 You Tube...Ella and Louis sing Summertime