How can one summer hold so much grace?
Reading familiar good books always feels like “coming home,” and I’m richer for having read several favorites again and many news ones. I also loved the thrift finds; maybe I’ll share about some of those another day.
Our garden produced a wild tangle of more tomatoes than we could dream of. I’m going to miss having a fresh tomato and fresh herbs to garnish any dish. The tomato soup and fresh pico! We also highly recommend limelight hydrangeas.
I’m so grateful for a lovely new sister and a wonderful new brother, added to our family within five days of each other! The early summer brought many enchanting evenings, all anticipating these two new marriages.
Speaking of marriage, we celebrated four years! Truly love him more today than ever (which was a statement I never understood before getting married). He is so many answered prayers all rolled into one man.
In our summer travels, I enjoyed the mountains and the plains (and the dear people even more). It dawned on me, walking the open dirt road flanked with farm fields, that the unbroken horizons prompt the same awe-filled worship as do the mountain-crested ones. God declares His glory in all His creation.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And all that is within me, bless His holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget none of His benefits;
Who pardons all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases;
Who redeems your life from the pit,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;
Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.”
Psalm 103:1-5
Abigail Rehmert 