The past two days have been beautiful and simple and also deeply inspiring. Yesterday was a perfect sunny crisp day of hiking to Tiger Rocks and reliving memories of camp. We read the Bible at the top of the mountain and talked about missions and our callings, and the wind swirled vigorously above us through the treetops. We watched hawks glide serenely and powerfully below us, and I thought, God is alive.
And today I ate pancakes with apple-butter faces at the relief sale and watched my breath fog in the newly-October air, and reveled in the glory of food and people and handmade things and fall. Then we drove to a church and dressed in our best clothes and sat in the front row for the wedding of April and Scott -- two people who make each other whole. They wrote their vows with words and stories that made tears spill from my eyes, in wonder at the beauty of love and everything else. Then they sat together on a piano bench and played a duet, mostly improvised, of lyrical and touching melodies that made my heart open wide. In that moment their whole world was centered in each other, and the rest of us were breathless to witness it.
mmmmmm
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