Posted by
Sheila on Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:50:48 AM
It is so nice to spend a quiet Sunday afternoon simply enjoying peacefull silence...napping outside in a hammock, or sitting in a swing reading a good book, with nothing but the sound of birds, the breeze in the trees, children's laughter in the distance...
A quiet Sunday afternoon takes me back in time, to days long past, when I was a young girl in Brazil.
My family would spend Sunday afternoons after Church in a small house on a hillside overlooking the bay on Governor's Island, off the coast of Rio. There was a hammock on the front porch. I loved that hammock!
I remember how quiet it was there...a warm breeze always blowing... the ocean sparkled where the hillsde met the palm lined white sand beach far below. Life seemed so much simpler then...
I guess that's why God made Sundays...it's a day to worship... reflect... and be still... "Be still and know that I am God"...
It is so good just to be still and enjoy the sounds of silence... and sweet memories God tucked away in the back of my mind...memories that appear, as I close my eyes, on a quiet Sunday afternoon.