On my way!

I love travelling and I especially love travelling when it has a purpose.  I'm so very excited to see my tour friends and family.  In these last 6 months, I have missed them dearly and now that I'm on my way, I can barely contain myself.  I am sitting in the airport, enjoying the free WiFi and quietly thanking my parents for giving me their Delta miles so I could fly away.

I have counted down to this day since the tickets were booked.  Now that it is here, I'm going to savour every moment of time, I'm going to make the most of the 2 weeks I have with this family of my heart and I'm going to take a million pictures, both with my camera and in my mind.  These are the times memories are made of.

I'm on my way, friends!  Just a few more hours and the real fun will begin!

Slow Me Down Lord

I found this in my cleaning today...copied from somewhere.  It is fitting.  A poem by Wilfred E. Peterson

Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.

Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of times.

Give me amidst the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.

Break the tension of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing springs that live in my memory.

Teach me the art of taking "minute vacations", of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book.

Remind me each day of the fable of the hare and the tortoise that I may know that the race is not only to the swift.

There is more to life than increasing the speed.

Oaks grow slowly.

Slow me down, Lord.

Inspire me to send my roots to the deep soil of life's enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my great destiny.