Room With A View

"I believe the nicest, sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." - Anne Shirley in Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables"

This was the breathtaking view from where I sat this morning. A quiet, perfect and uneventful morning just with myself. The gentle wind on my face as I read from Sarah Ban Breathnach and M. Scott Peck's books on the second floor library of this resort that feels just like home.

Somewhere else, seven new high school graduates slept soundly, like babies, as they caught up on much needed sleep while I dozed on and off on a comfortable sofa, book in hand, looking out onto a serene, cerulean, Visayan sea.

I had been here back in September 2007 and wrote a review on it in one of my blogs -- Cathy Chronicles. That period, was a more "turbulent" if you might call it that, time in my life, and Bohol provided a wonderful respite and balm to the events that were unfolding that year.

But now, two years later, the mid-life crisis over, all is peaceful and all is well. I cannot begin to thank the Lord enough for bringing me back here to savor the peace and serenity. I tap away on this quiet night, listening to the gentle waves lapping from a distance. Tomorrow I look forward to rising before sunrise and taking a leisurely stroll on the shore as I mull over the giant step that I have taken towards the fulfillment of a life-long dream this April.

God is good and He feels so close to me here. My heart overflows with gratitude and grace.