Our family is in the midst of little league soccer season. My youngest son is playing and his enthusiasm is contagious. He is pretty good at the sport, but what makes it so great is that he loves it! He counts the days until the next game or practice. He loves his coach and teammates. He has moved up an age level this year and the players are working more like team, passing to each other and watching out for each other during play. During the last game, my son scored two goals, they were the only goals of the game. In today's game the team scored eight goals. My son came up afterwards to me and said, "I didn't score today, but I blocked". What a powerful truth those words can hold. In life, sometimes we score, sometimes we block. Sometimes we do great things, we excel, we achieve, we meet our goal - we score! There are also times we see the needs of others, sometimes they are sad or hurting, we block their hits. We look out for them so they can score. We...
Love it. Such a nice opportunity to be together. :) Visiting from "jftjoi" linky.
ReplyDeleteThose are the BEST days. My husband is a nature fan too and we have had some of best conversations in the great outdoors.
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures too... So glad you linked up!
Wow-what fun! Is that the two of you taking pictures of yourselves from as far away as your arm will reach?? Don't you just that!:) That's pretty much how all of our vacation photos are done these days!!
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely pictures! I'm a little jealous of your time alone with your man. Craving a date night, I guess. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of taking a walk out in nature with just my hubby! Someday...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful spot to do some hiking and good talking.