Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-15
Here we are, and it’s August 1, the beginning of another month in this fast-moving 2023. Today marks two years from the epic Sunday Rebekah officially retired and it’s a good time to see where we are and where we are going. Or at least try.
Our first priority remains – and this has been a constant since our marriage in 1979 – each other. This may sound like a “no-brainer” but it’s an important concept to keep thinking about and putting into action.
To that end we enjoyed a celebratory date Monday evening. Yes, we eat out fairly often, but when it has the “date” designation everything is a little more special.
We used Naomi and Craig’s Father’s Day/Rebekah’s birthday gift to enjoy the culinary delights of Wake Forest’s Over the Falls restaurant.
I – as we all know – love love love creative foods, and this time I took a gamble with something I hadn’t tried before, ordering a shrimp and crab linguine that was amazing. Rebekah went with the spinach-artichoke flatbread with grilled chicken.
We started, of course, with what are probably the best wings in North Carolina.
Strength and Hope:
And today, setting the tone for August, we will be back next door, cleaning and sorting and preparing and fixing things and moving the house forward, best we can, toward hopefully finding new owners without too much difficulty.
I am moving into this new month with what the hymn writer describes as “Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow” (Great is They Faithfulness). Of course, I could use more strength, we were reminded of that when the people came to pick up the enormous leather sofa!
But hope, there is something our relationship with God makes us pretty good at.
So here it is, “Retirement, Year Three.” Keep following along with this blog and you can not only keep up with our adventures but be – we pray – encouraged in your own journey of faith.
Peace and more peace – DEREK
