The morning for Thursday was nothing usual as we were heading out to Annsley's graduation from pre-K which was to start at 9 AM in the Riverview area. Needless to say we were up at 5:30 for a 7:45 departure and which we were a few minutes late getting there due to the rush hour traffic. Luckily for us the program was late starting so we missed nothing. We saw more traffic this AM than we will see all summer in the mountains. It was a special time for these little ones as they sang, danced and wore their caps with the tassels as they received their graduation diplomas. Afterwards we headed out to Mimi's Café for lunch.
The food was great and very reasonable and we had an enjoyable time with Annsley's other grand parents(Brian and Susan) as well as Bob, Jill and Gabe. Afterwards we headed back to Seminole which got us home around 2 PM. Nancy got busy on baking Amy a birthday cake she requested for her supper on Friday night as we didn't get to celebrate last weekend her 30th birthday due to the wedding in Miami. We will have a big family spaghetti supper on Friday evening(she requested as well). I headed out to water the gardens and the new seedlings. I sowed Zinnias 2 days ago and they are breaking ground already. I will bring them to the cabin as well as we just love the beauty of the flower and they do so well there. The tomato seedlings have small tomatoes set so if I can get them in the ground there, I will be one of the first to have 'maters ready to eat this season.
We had a lite supper of salad and soup before heading over to the beach for our house church get together at Kathryn and Patrick's house. We just took beach chairs across Gulf Blvd which is just a stones throw from their condo and we were on the beach. The sunset around 8:30 and we were on the beach about 45 minutes before that happened and Nancy captured it on film as well as the moon in all of its splendor. We had a new person, Kevin to join us who is a retired Army officer. We had a great discussion from the book of Galatians about legalism in the church and how that can separate us from pleasing GOD. Believers must ask themselves the all important question of "who do I strive to please with my life" man or GOD and many times that causes people to stay away from church and honoring GOD because of these stringent rules, ceremony's, dress codes, types of worship music, etc.(legalism's).
The ambiance was awesome as we listened to the waves, felt the cool breeze and saw the amazing setting of the sun and the rise of the full moon and to think all of these things were set in place by our Creator. There is no other planet like Earth. Well it was a great time as we shared some of our life experiences together then Kathryn spoiled us with chocolate cake before we headed home. It was going on 10 PM by the time we hit the showers and got ready for bed. I will enclose some pictures from the beach get together, LATER
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