I’m on vacation right now with the fam.  In the past, Nicole’s dad has read us this quotation to help us keep a right perspective while on vacation:

“Pleasures are shafts of glory… The sweetness [of earthly pleasures] is still a beam from the glory… I have tried since to make every pleasure in to a channel of adoration. I don’t mean simply by giving thanks for it. one must of course give thanks, but I meant something different… Gratitude exclaims very properly, “How good of God to give me this.” Adoration says, “What must be the quality of that Being who far-off and momentary coruscations [=sparkling, gleaming, or flashing of light] are like this!” One’s mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun.” C. S. Lewis, quoted by John Piper, When I Don’t Desire God, p. 18.

Check out this five15 sighting: there’s a family picture of us at Wal-Mart over on the GirlTalk blog.  Check out my brother-in-law Mike’s shirt!

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