I HAVE A NEW SNAPSHOT IN MY HEART.
You know what I mean: it's one of those treasured memories of an especially sweet event that is captured by our minds and carefully tucked away in our hearts for safe-keeping. It involves the people we love and the experiences we have.
Last weekend we stayed a couple of days with my aunt and uncle in Ennis, TX (near Dallas). We had a wonderful time, and I found it to be one of the very best things I've done in a long while. On Sunday evening, when the sun was setting and the air had cooled down, my 78-year old aunt asked if I wanted to go for a ride in her go-cart ~ HER go cart? That made me smile. Of course, I wanted to go for a ride in her go-cart! So, she pulled on her camo baseball hat, we climbed into the go-cart, and off we went. When we got into their little pasture she asked if I wanted her to sing me a song (another smile). Umm ~ yes, I did! So she proceeded to sing the sweetest, old, old song ("Let the Rest of the World Go By") from the 1940's, I think, as she drove us through their pasture and around their pond.
We were bouncing over the ruts in the pasture, with me hanging on to the roll bar above me, and Aunt Bonnie singing to me so sweetly, like I was a little girl, "With someone like you, a pal good and true, I'd like to leave it all behind, and go and find ~ a place that's known, to God alone, just a spot to call our own..."
The cattle and donkeys in the neighboring pasture gazed at us as we passed them by, bouncing around on the ruts. We were just a couple of grandmas (one a great-grandma, actually) bouncing around the open pasture in a souped-up go-cart, feeling as carefree as two little girls at play.
I felt so loved, so secure and so peaceful. What a treasure to have another sweet snap-shot in my heart ~ may you capture a new snap-shot for your heart very soon!
