Good things about Sundays

I'm so thankful that God rested on the seventh day. If it wasn't for sundays I think I'd go crazy. It is so refreshing to have a day of stillness. The sun is shining today, and although the cold of winter is approaching fast it feels like a late summers day. Everything is green and beautiful on campus, most students have gone home for the weekend or are still in bed until late afternoon. Peace.
Down in town Ambleside is tourist haven, and no matter where you go there are toursits dawdling along at their own (very slow) pace admiring the beauty of this place which is becoming home. Tourists in many ways should be shot, they're always in the way and cause conjestion on both roads and pavements, but I do love how I get that sunday feeling, and smile nicely at the, and they blink back at you in surprise, too slow to answer before you're gone.
Other good things about Sundays:
Church - an hour a week that you're guaranteed to spend with God, soak up his spirt and learn from his word whilst worshipping Him.
Children's groups, in particular the Creche - the wonderment of little children
Walking for the sake of it and enjoyment that it brings.
Catching up on sleep
Hanging out with friends, doing very little, just lounging around
T4 - catch up on the weeks soaps if you're sad enough to care what you missed!
Sunday dinner - a roast of some sort with veg and gravy, mmmm
Many many cups of tea
The phone - a day with little else to do than give a bell to those I miss.

Yesterday my parents visited me and we took a boat out on the lake and went to Windamere for icecream. We talked and caught up and it was perfect. On the ride back on the boat the sun was sinking behind the mountains casting a sparkling pinky-orange glow on the water and the surrounding country side. Heave a deep a sigh and smile. God surely has blessed us with a beautiful world.

Miss Jacquie Pamela Bird Day is coming visiting next week, how "awesome is that?!"