Saturday evening I drove out along a country road (most are country up here) and saw this little gate. This setting seemed perfect for a late afternoon photograph. And then there was time to take a quick photo of Cocoa Joy smiling. (smile)

Jesus was raised so that we might walk in newness of life! He is our life, our blessed hope, and our resurrection!

He died so we might live.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, . . . we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. —C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity

I don’t know if I have ever been a place of deeper solitude than this. Silence surrounded me, and I was sure if only for a moment, I was the only person on the face of this earth.

All day long, we had been singing “Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go.” Then we turned a corner and saw this scene and suddenly we felt as though we had reached a very warm destination—a destination as warm and welcoming as any grandma’s house.