Post #556. Yay for two posts on consecutive days - a record for me! :-) At least, in a while ... :o)

7:20 yesterday evening found me getting out of the car at Arbor Hills for a relaxing early evening walk. If I had known how gorgeous it was, I may have tried to get out there sooner!

A balmy breeze, mixed in with the scent of Tommy Girl and the beauty of God's creation around me, made for a delicious tone in the air. I felt invigorated, refreshed, so alive. As I was thinking all these wonderfully joyous thoughts, the sighting of a little squiggly line in the path ahead of me interupted these reflections. As I got closer, it was indeed confirmed: It was a snake!

Now, I had just passed a couple of people going the other way on the path. Why that little fellow had waited to enter the human realm until I approach, I know not. Probably for the same reason I have had snakes "visit" me right outside my second-story apartment door four times and not visit my next door neighbor who lives downstairs! [Snakes climb stairs quite well ... this I know. ;-D] Oh well ...

Later in my walk I saw a really cute rabbit. A much more pleasant sighting! As I walked by the lookout tower, strains of music or chants reached my ears that sounded like those I would picture coming from an eastern religion. Then I saw where the sound was coming from - a young person dressed in bright yellow, with their head shaved like a Buddhist monk. A startling sight ... a gripping reminder. Yet as I think about it now, also a reminder of the wonderful privilige God has given me so reach such people ...

This is why I was created ... why I am here ... to know Jesus and carry the news of His redemptive love to a world that desperately needs a Savior. Beyond belief ... and how grateful I am.