Thankful Thursday: Love

by Hopeful Spirit on Thursday, July 5, 2007

“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of sum­mer
Those days of soda and pret­zels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of sum­mer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer …

You’ll wish that sum­mer could always be here
You’ll wish that sum­mer could always be here.”

Iris at Sting My Heart wrote about love today and I’m fol­low­ing her lead because it is a great topic for this hot sum­mer day.

Remem­ber that old Nat King Cole song? It was going through my head this after­noon as I was float­ing around the pool. Even though it was 110 degrees out­side, the water was cool and refresh­ing, so it really didn’t seem that hot until I got out and dis­cov­ered that I didn’t even need a towel because the air was so warm that the water seemed to instantly evaporate.

Yes, I love sum­mer. I love the water and the feel of the sun beat­ing down on me when I’m in the water. I tan very eas­ily, so I love that my skin gets a lit­tle darker each day and the sun streaks my hair my hair, sav­ing me the trou­ble and expense of hav­ing my hair­dresser do it! The sun makes me feel ener­getic and happy … like the world is full of noth­ing but possibilities.

Con­versely, I love the cool breeze wafts in my win­dow late most evenings, help­ing me unwind and pre­pare to sleep com­fort­ably in antic­i­pa­tion of another hot, hot day.

I can’t believe that it has been a whole week since I wrote here … I had a cou­ple dif­fer­ent groups of com­pany vis­it­ing from out of town. That was fun! We enjoyed some very lovely meals, lin­ger­ing over a glass of wine to visit, rem­i­nisce and laugh. It is so nice to have friends that I have known for vir­tu­ally my entire life. I don’t have to explain who I am or what I have expe­ri­enced. They know because they went through those expe­ri­ences with me. We have a col­lec­tive basis of knowl­edge about each other that spans child­hood, puberty, our crazy teen and col­lege years, and adulthood’s respon­si­bil­i­ties. So it is always excit­ing to have time to just sit and talk for awhile, espe­cially when we can do it out­side in the cool evening air.

And we cel­e­brated July Fourth, of course. We had the most deli­cious food … there were many peo­ple in our group and every­one con­tributed. The water­melon was so sweet and deli­cious and the straw­ber­ries were huge and juicy! I had one that was the size of my fist — and no, I’m not exaggerating!

I love that one day per year Amer­i­cans take time out of their busy lives to cel­e­brate sum­mer, fam­ily and the free­doms we take for granted the other 364 days. Yes, at the cel­e­bra­tion we attended there was a moment of silence observed for all sol­diers who paid the “ulti­mate price” on behalf of the United States, as well as acknowl­edg­ment of the vet­er­ans in the group and cur­rently serv­ing. Pol­i­tics were put aside to remem­ber those men and women who are obey­ing the direc­tives of their Com­man­der in Chief, gov­ern­ment and lower-level lead­ers, faith­fully serv­ing irre­spec­tive of their per­sonal opin­ions. I love that I got a lump in my throat dur­ing those moments, feel­ing thank­ful for all the bless­ings I have because of those who have served selflessly.

I love the fact that I may be away from the com­puter peri­od­i­cally through­out the remain­der of the sum­mer, so there may not be a new post from me each day but I will endeavor to be con­sis­tent because I have switched over to Word­Press because, among the software’s great fea­tures is the abil­ity to draft posts in advance and pub­lish them at a spe­cific time, even if you are aware from the com­puter. Have I men­tioned yet how much I love WordPress?

So … I am now thank­ful to be sign­ing off to go out on the patio to see if that cool breeze is kick­ing up yet. If not, the air con­di­tion­ing will have to remain on and I will be thank­ful for it.

Have a won­der­ful, thank­ful evening!



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{ 6 comments }

1 Denise July 5, 2007 at 10:59 pm

Bless your thankful heart.

2 Sharon July 6, 2007 at 10:50 pm

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
I love participating in Thankful Thursday. I have met many great women and I enjoy stopping to think about how incredible God has been.
We have been enjoying the pool around here too–but it has not been as hot because we have been getting a lot of rain.
Have a great weekend!
Stay cool.

3 Karen July 7, 2007 at 5:31 am

Thank you for stopping by this week! Sounds like you had a great time with some friends over the past week!

4 Terri @ in His hands July 7, 2007 at 6:43 am

I love summer too! Glad you had fun with your friends.

Enjoyed your post–very well written!

Blessings!

5 eph2810 July 7, 2007 at 6:58 am

How neat that have a pool you can float in and cool off during the hot summer days :)
It is so much fun to spend time with awesome friends, hang out and talk for hours — I am glad that you were able to do that over the last week.
Yes, we do forget about the awesome freedom we have here in the US. I too am thankful for my veteran and the ones who are still in the services.
I am thankful for the true freedom we find in Him :)

Thank you so much for sharing your grateful heart with us this week.

Be blessed today and always…

6 Mark@CreditCards July 7, 2007 at 8:38 am

The 4th is my favorite holiday of the year! I love summer nights and watching fireworks with friends and family. Excellent post!

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