One Final Day

 This morning was an opportunity for a final walk before the task of packing up and preparing for the trip home. We walked another section of the Ebey Waterfront Trail. 

Jo Anne there are lots of tree tunnels for you. 

Knotty tree

I thought it was pretty cool how the dead part at the bottom of this bush made it look like a tree. 

Golden threadleaf false cypress

Processing Cathie’s cherries

There were several twin cherries

I stemmed, Cathie pitted and Connie sliced. 

Trip Stats:

6 ferries

4 flights

3 islands

6 ice cream treats

8 Waterfalls

7 Farmers markets & festivals 

2114.7 Miles driven 

15,050 Steps 

59.7 miles walked

To end this journey, I leave you with one of my favorite quotes from CS Lewis. I have this hanging in my kitchen on a card I made. 

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

Ironically, Lewis died less than five months after writing these words to his friend. 

There will come a day for all of us when ‘it is finished’. Few people today wish to think or speak of death. Yet for the believer, death need not be the depressing idea that many imagine.

After all, Paul said just the same. If we really believe what we say we believe—if we really think that home is elsewhere and this life is a ‘wandering to find home’, that we are indeed “sojourners”, why should we not look forward to the arrival.

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

Philippians 1:21 ESV

Death is not a defeat to the Christian. It is merely a graduation to glory, a net gain.

To be in the immediate presence of the Lord was gain for Paul.

This perspective will help us to live our lives with a joyful, wholehearted commitment to the God who loves us and whom we will soon meet.