Today was our Day Of Prayer here at Ecola, which we have once a term. I had been enjoying the day of relaxing and reconnecting with the Lord. I took my time to lift up my fellow classmates and those who I got prayer from. I sat down and journaled out all of my prayers. When I had finished, I had a desire to go out and enjoy the beach, although it was raining, I put on my coat and rain boots and walked out the door. As I got to the beach the tide was going out and I followed the river down to the ocean as I was walking I started to realize that I was enjoying the rain again. When we first got back from Christmas break it was raining and I was not at all excited for a term full of rain, well of course we have been blessed with the weather we would be having in April. The rain comes today and I love it, crazy.
As I was walking I started going back in time to my childhood and remembering all the times I would go out and play in the rain with my brothers and friends puddle jumping, mud fights, bike riding, walks, four wheeling and many other things. I remembered a time from when my friends and I got all dressed up just go puddle jumping in our dresses.
While standing in part of the river I closed my eyes and just listened to the water run against my rain boots taking me back to all the times of fishing with my family, getting in and out of the boat standing in the river and the water just rushing over my boots...the sound so refreshing.
On my walk back to campus I decided to started jumping. It was so freeing and I didn't care how crazy I looked doing it I was having fun and being a kid again. The joys of just jumping and watching the water fly all over the place, hair getting soaked like you just got out of the shower.
I realized that it is okay to step back into my childhood and relive those days of being free and not having to be an adult for a bit. It was satisfying to the soul.
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