It was a wonderful weekend. Tensions and stresses just melted away. Everything that was planned worked out beautifully. Everyone who participated had a great time and was a blessing to everyone else. It was the kind of weekend that was so great that you memorized and memorialized it. You took lots of pictures and posted many brags to Face Book.
After a while you tried to analyze it, hoping that if you could discover all the critical elements to such a wonderful weekend you could recreate it anytime you wanted in the future. However, your analysis didn’t work. Wonderful weekends have wonderful weather. The weather forecast for our weekend included 100 percent chance of rain and flash flood warnings. It turned out that the rain never prevented anyone from doing just what they wanted including spending several hours on the beach.
It was an anniversary weekend which is meant to be spent alone by the couple celebrating far away from everyone else. This weekend included our favorite young couple and their five-year old. This isn’t the formula for a romantic get-a-way but it worked. Don’t get me wrong. Rose and I cherish our alone time. When we were young marries I went away twice to Vietnam and was gone for months. We learned the value and blessing of each others company. God has paid us back for those months of separation. For years now I have been able to practice out of my house. I get to spend every day with Rose and share almost every meal with her. It was no problem for us to spend an anniversary with favorite people.
After failed attempts at analysis, you realize that wonderful weekends can be memorized and memorialized. They can be thoroughly enjoyed. They can’t be analyzed or recreated. This is so because we don’t create them in the first place. Wonderful weekends are put together by God in Heaven. They are lovingly assembled as tiny glimpses at how wonderful eternity will be. When we are reunited in love and in peace with all the wonderful people God has gifted us with in perfect union with the God who made it all.
Thank you Jesus for the wonderful weekend and the blessed eternity it foreshadows.
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