Beautiful Summer Evening

Taking the clothes down from the line Harvesting the oats Chasing the chickens out of the corn Swinging on swings Catching lightning bugs Singing and twirling and laughing Looking at…

Taking the clothes down from the line

Harvesting the oats

Chasing the chickens out of the corn

Swinging on swings

Catching lightning bugs

Singing and twirling and laughing

Looking at the little ones, Court asks why they can't stay this way forever. It is so tempting to want to just freeze time. It's got to be as close to Heaven as we get in this life. We might talk wistfully of time to ourselves, and that cruise we are going to take someday. But imagining life without our children surrounding us is hard to do. One gone already, so far away, casts a slight shadow. Freezing time sounds like the only answer!

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