distractions

What do you write when the words won’t come?  

Today is one of those days, I get easily distracted, and nothing seems to make sense.  Missing kids, missing friends, missing going out to church!  The companionship and closeness that you feel from just being around people you like and love.  

Does God miss us this way when we stray too far, or get distracted by the things of the world? Does He long for us to come back and visit, to talk to Him, to walk with Him?  (by the way, one of my all time favourite hymns). I think He does!  I know I do.  

I can remember being at my grandmothers house, she lived in a town, a college town, but had a quite large place, and at the bottom of the hill was her garden.  I can still remember the smells of the garden in the morning, with the dew all over the flowers. I used to go there, pull carrots from the ground, wash them and eat them for a snack!  They were the unlimited snacks, but as you find out, you can only eat so many carrots, lol!  

I can remember going to the beach where we lived.  The smell of the salt water still lingers in my mind. The sand beneath my feet, the feel of the sun shining down.  Doing nothing but being a kid running along the edge of the waves.  

Smells seem to be one way to bring on memories.  Busses take me back to a trip I took to Europe.  Newly opened books bring on childhood memories of school starting up, which was a day I always looked forward to.  Popcorn makes me think of going to the movies. All good things.  

So on days when I get easily distracted, I close my eyes and think of days past, and what I would do now if I could to create more days for memories. 

Nostalgic?  Yes.  But we all could do with a time of remembrance of days gone, good days, fun days, being a kid days.  And at the end of those memories, God holds out His hand and we walk and talk about it all!