"It's so quiet"

We've just finished a busy, but very enjoyable, non-structured weekend with friends. After they left this afternoon and Charles and Nathanael had gotten back from baseball try-outs, we were all sitting around in the living room and Nathanael said "it sure is quiet now." And I knew exactly how he felt! When people share your life, your home, with you for a time, you feel their absence when they're gone. Nathanael just expressed those thoughts from the perspective of sound. We all had to figure out what to do with ourselves since we didn't have John and Sandi there to share our time with us anymore.

So, Charles and I took a long nap. The boys listened to a new Adventures in Odyssey.

It was a good sort of quiet, one that helped us remember the importance of friends, and helped me appreciate what a quiet Sunday afternoon can do to bring healing for frazzled nerves and not enough sleep. (I'm not implying that John and Sandi brought about my frazzled nerves. I did that all myself!)

So, maybe God really did know what He was doing when He commanded us to rest one day out of seven! I'd say so.