READING: Psalm 25: 1-10
Sweetwater Creek flows behind our Longwood home. The stream flows from Lake Brantley; pass our property, and on to the Wekiva River.
The creek and wooded area behind our house is one of the attractions we love about our home because it provides us with privacy and serves as a habitat for birds, deer, and bears. It has also become a natural playground for our children.
Our son and daughter’s imagination, with the aid of several neighborhood friends, has created a sort of “Huckleberry Fin” world along the stream with paths and forts. A fallen tree becomes a bridge secret world. Scrap lumber is found, my garage workshop is raided for tools and hardware, and architectural wonders are created that incorporate the collected lumber with limbs, branches, and palm frowns. Housekeeping is set up and territorial battles are fought with Nerf guns and water pistols. The daytimes replace the nightly owl hoots with laughter, yelling, and much fun along the stream in the woods.
In Psalm 25, we seek the Lord. In our youth, imagination may have given us much fun, but by ourselves and our own resourcefulness of what we have at hand, it does not give what we need to live by the stream of Life. The flow of the stream takes us to bigger adventures and joins us with other streams moving to the River. Only with God’s guidance, can we be learn the right way to live, be humble, and flow in the Lord's stream.
Sweetwater Creek flows behind our Longwood home. The stream flows from Lake Brantley; pass our property, and on to the Wekiva River.
The creek and wooded area behind our house is one of the attractions we love about our home because it provides us with privacy and serves as a habitat for birds, deer, and bears. It has also become a natural playground for our children.
Our son and daughter’s imagination, with the aid of several neighborhood friends, has created a sort of “Huckleberry Fin” world along the stream with paths and forts. A fallen tree becomes a bridge secret world. Scrap lumber is found, my garage workshop is raided for tools and hardware, and architectural wonders are created that incorporate the collected lumber with limbs, branches, and palm frowns. Housekeeping is set up and territorial battles are fought with Nerf guns and water pistols. The daytimes replace the nightly owl hoots with laughter, yelling, and much fun along the stream in the woods.
In Psalm 25, we seek the Lord. In our youth, imagination may have given us much fun, but by ourselves and our own resourcefulness of what we have at hand, it does not give what we need to live by the stream of Life. The flow of the stream takes us to bigger adventures and joins us with other streams moving to the River. Only with God’s guidance, can we be learn the right way to live, be humble, and flow in the Lord's stream.
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