May is a busy month! Proms, graduations, concerts, Mother’s Day, beginnings and endings. There is so much to do.
The words from Psalm 46:10 say, “Be still and know that I am God.” It made me think of Minong, WI, a place where my family likes to vacation. I can sit and quiet my mind, but for the second year in a row we won’t be going because, well, we’re just too busy!
My friend Tom recently shared an article he wrote called, “Thin Places” about a time we all spent together celebrating his 60th birthday in the Smoky Mountains. He rented a lodge with lots of rooms and gathered several of his closest friends and family the weekend in March of 2020 right before the world shut down because of COVID.
Tom’s friends and family weren’t the only visitors that weekend. A few black bears showed up on the deck of the lodge.
He wrote, “We went very still. The bears did not. They moved along the railing with that unhurried confidence that large wild animals have when they are entirely at home and you are entirely a guest. For a few long moments, the only thing between us was glass.”
