“Go where your best prayers take you.” ~ Frederick Buechner

Do you ever have an image in your mind you can go to when you just need a quiet place and a quiet place is not anywhere in site? As a father on a popular TV show would say, “Serenity Now!” In this over scheduled world sometimes it is of value to take a time out when the noise in your head gets unmanageable.

This image was captured in a popular park one Saturday. It was a place of quiet refuge for us. This entire park had about 10,000 visitors who mainly passed this beautiful scene by in their haste to get to the next area of interest. We lingered here, drawn in by all the pond life and the sounds of nature. There were trout lingering below the surface choosing which water bugs were worth their effort, the spiders busy in their work, and plant life framing the water and giving shelter to more bugs. It was a refuge of peace to two people in need of quiet.
I am deeply grateful for places or times of serenity. Places of solace and serenity are important whether they are in our mind’s eye or ones that our feet can take us to for a welcome break.

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."~ Albert Camus

Peace.