The timing was perfect. I’d booked my flight before the announcement came, but just just two days after baby arrived so did my flight!
Then happy surprise–at the ferry dock, for the sailing across to Powell River, the brand-new Salish Orca pulled up for her maiden passenger voyage! I couldn’t have timed that better. And so a once-mundane crossing became a time of exploration and picture-taking to capture all the newness…
But the real bit of eagerness and wonder lay just ahead… my daughter’s first baby–a strapping 8 1/2 + pound boy with a toddler’s head-full of dark hair,
just waiting to be whisked home from the hospital ( ;
And oh how captivating…
What an expressive little tot at just over a week old!
For eight days I got to hang around watching JAXON take in his new world,
and finding great delight myself in the world all a-bloom there…
It was SO good to be back ‘home’–for visits and walks with friends and quiet sits in the sun by the sea…
The crossing back to the airport was a melancholy one as I sat watching the shoreline diminish… where now three daughters and one precious grandbaby reside…
But the Lord worked it out that there would be friends on the other side too who would host me for the afternoon and see me off at day’s end…
And I needn’t even have dreaded my return to the bleak-slow-to-waken-after-winter prairies. For in my absence spring had come here too!
We serve a glorious King who lavishes us all our days with grace upon grace!
–LS
God has made everything beautiful in its time!
Eccl. 3:11 ESV