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<\/a><\/p>\nDecember 29th marked our first snowstorm on Grand Manan. \u00a0I am not a snow lover by any sense of the term but somehow I enjoyed it. \u00a0Grand Manan, my home, seems to add something to every experience that I have these days. \u00a0Elaine and I decided to take Rango for a walk on the Seal Cove beach before the storm worsened. \u00a0The sands were snow covered and the visibility was limited. \u00a0Even in its wintry version it held a beauty of its own. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Our footprints were the first to mark the otherwise blank canvas. \u00a0Rango’s frenzied feet threw the sand far and wide with each retrieval of the fetch stick. \u00a0Three quarters of the way across the beach I asked Elaine, “What more could a million dollars give you than what you are enjoying right now?<\/strong><\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n I asked myself the same question and the answer was immediate and obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n “Nothing … absolutely nothing<\/strong><\/em>.”<\/span><\/p>\n It is a beautiful realization that money can add nothing to a person’s life in and of itself. \u00a0And money was just “the thing<\/strong><\/em>“. \u00a0Truthfully we lack nothing. \u00a0And everything that we enjoy is a perfect gift from the perfect Gift-giver.<\/span><\/p>\n I am 60 years old and I haven’t had a lot of these moments of awareness. \u00a0They have come sporadically, unexpectedly along the journey, presenting themselves differently each time. \u00a0The message has been the same. \u00a0We have so much that we take for granted when others have so little.<\/span><\/p>\n Lord Jesus … thank you for your wonderful blessings. \u00a0We are not kept from them by our lack of resource. \u00a0They are given freely<\/strong><\/em> and indiscriminately. \u00a0Good and perfect gifts! \u00a0Like everything else they speak to me of your beauty, grace, mercy and faithfulness.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0Reveal yourself to us in these days as we have never known you before. \u00a0Not so much in signs and wonders as in the incredible notion that we could know you intimately<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Let the heart of Christ beat the cadence of our lives. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”Gallery” gallery_ids=”1337,1338,1339,1340,1341,1342,1343,1344,1345,1346,1347,1348,1349,1350″ gallery_orderby=”rand” fullwidth=”on” show_title_and_caption=”on” show_pagination=”on” background_layout=”light” auto=”on” auto_speed=”4000″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” caption_font_size=”14″ caption_all_caps=”off” title_font_size=”16″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 29th marked our first snowstorm on Grand Manan. \u00a0I am not a snow lover by any sense of the term but somehow I enjoyed it. \u00a0Grand Manan, my home, seems to add something to every experience that I have these days. \u00a0Elaine and I decided to take Rango for a walk on the Seal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-between-sundays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6IX45-ly","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikemediology.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}