Skip day...

Of all the things to forget to write about. I just wanted to post something about the best skip day i've ever had. Last Sunday, i woke up, picked Hayley up, and went to church. That's nothing unusual. I normally do go to church. It's what happened afterwards that changed things up. I did try to make a long story short, but after looking at the unending length of all the kool things that we did while in Longview that afternoon, i decided it wasn't too terribly important. At 6:00, i made the decision to do something that i normally don't do. I decided to skip church and go over to Kyle's house with Hayley to watch a movie. It was a great movie- A Christmas Story. If you haven't seen it, i highly recommend it... It was what happened after the movie that was so wonderful. We went upstairs to finish checking out the house. We were shown the deck upstairs- just like a lake house. There was no water in sight- at least not at night time anyway- but there was a sea of shimmering stars. It was glorious. They were all so bright. We weren't out there that long, or it didn't seem to be long, but i saw at least 7 shooting stars! How was i to guess that you could see that many stars 12 minutes away from Longview? It was a type of beauty that i haven't seen since Africa. Of course the spread of stars in Africa is vast and without end (or so it seems), but i haven't really looked at the stars in that way since i left there. It reminded me of what a big God that i serve. I was able to tie in the stuff that i learned in geology with a simple wonder of how magnificent creation is. I love times where i can just sit back and say "Wow..."