A quick note from Pennsylvania

Yes, I’m in beautiful Pennsylvania right now.  🙂  Here is the little story how that came to be:  Several months ago, when I visited my doctor, one of the things she told me was that my “well” was about empty and that I should find some things that would help fill it back up.  In the days following that doctor’s visit, I talked to my family on and off about this and I tossed around some ideas of what I felt would help fill my well back up.

I love photography (my daughter C is a real pro when it comes to taking pictures of babies and families!! so I’ll leave that side of photography to her 😉 ).  Give me the great outdoors, some woods to walk around in and a camera around my neck and I think I’d be very happy.  So this is something I really want to add to my “bucket list” for the coming months (note: I don’t actually have a bucket list, but that sounded pretty impressive, didn’t it??).   Taking pictures in the woods?  Yes, please!

So, long story short, Joe bought me a Nikon D90, which I can’t wait to learn how to use!  But since that will take some time and lots and lots of practice, I’m just using my iPhone for now, which works just fine. 🙂  I’ve taken many pictures on the different walks I’ve went on since I came to Pennsylvania.  Fall is just starting to show it’s colors, & it’s been breathtaking and so refreshing!

{Here’s a picture of an acorn I took – not bad for just using my iPhone, huh?  Oh how I’ve enjoyed several beautiful walks with some precious friends}

{And then there’s the picture of the lunar eclipse…taken through Becky’s telescope…with my iPhone…maybe you heard us squealing with excitement?!!}

The other thing I mentioned to my daughters one day when we were taking a walk was I’d love to go back to Pennsylvania and visit my son Benjamin’s grave.  Joe and I were able to visit there last fall when we came down to celebrate our 30th anniversary and I was longing to come back again.

I looked into going in the Spring and the Lord clearly kept all the doors closed for me to go.  This fall I started looking into it again…and when it started working out, it happened so fast that *poof* I’m here!!  (Did I mention that the Lord gave me a round trip ticket for less than $450??  What an extra special blessing straight from my Lord!)

Yes, right now I’m typing from a desk in beautiful Pennsylvania.  I have been blessed to visit my son’s grave several times already and for the first time in 22 years I’ve been able to plant flowers there.  Oh, how it did my mommy heart good.  Oh so good.

There have been many tears, but its been good.

One day, as I sat at his grave, I told the Lord how awesome it would be if He decided to come back right then!!  For the dead in Christ shall rise first…oh what a glorious thought (!!) to think I’d be there when the ground split wide open right at my feet!  To be reunited with my baby Benjamin for eternity!  To hug him again…and never have to let go.

Last night while talking with my dear hubby on the phone, he mentioned that he could see the Lord in this trip right from the beginning.  I have too.   I feel that the Lord has begun to fill my well again…and I am so grateful.

So I head home in a few days…home to my sweet family…and company coming 2 days later…and more company after that…yup, back to the Newman household!

And back home, with more sweet memories stashed away in my heart.  Memories to pull out again and again.  Memories of God’s great goodness to this heart of mine.  He is so faithful.