And Catrina Saw That It Was Good

Spent most of the day today helping Breen and Patrick get the garden beds ready, and we also actually planted onions and garlic. The weather could not have been more perfect - not too cold, not too hot, just right humidity, bright and sunny with a nice gentle breeze. An absolutely gorgeous day to be out and about in a big beautiful world in the company of wonderful people. Adding to my bliss was a delicious breakfast to start us off right, and an even more delicious lunch (because Patrick grills the best hamburgers in the world), and during breaktime inside, I had fun playing with the cats, who are endlessly adorable and entertaining.

It's at the end of a day like this that I totally get what God is talking about, sitting down after a busy, full day of creating and sighing, "This is good."

It's also a day that puts me in mind of a famous G. K. Chesterton quote:

Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. (From Orthodoxy)

If he's right, then I'd like to hold with God's eternal appetite of infancy, especially after a day like today, I say: Do it again!