On Monday night I convinced Brett to take us to the overlook (seen before in this post), where I wanted to talk to the kids again about the real reason for Easter. (There was actually a guy there the whole time, so the talk was in the van and not at the overlook but that’s okay.) And it was soooooo beautiful. The light was delicious, the mountains magnificent, everything just so lovely. I decided it just might be my favorite place in Switzerland. And I was there with my favorite people. Could life be any better? I think not.
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Exuberance is beauty.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
In the sky
an infinitude of hope,
a canvas of glory
all possibilities mine.
~Neroli Lambent 
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
Listen for the voice of the Father in the bounties and beauties of nature, in the gentle whisperings of the Spirit. In your daily interactions with others, in the words of a hymn, in the laughter of a child, listen for His voice.
-Deiter F. Uchtdorf
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
2 comments:
I think it would be my favorite place too. Stunning! I love the mountains (and your family looks so happy)!
As I scrolled through your blog I was intrigued by the frog egg catching...I brought home some frog eggs when I was little, put them in the fish bowl--several of them hatched and one of the tadpoles actually grew into a frog. Now THAT was one of the coolest things I've ever seen--the transformation. Definitely a must-do for any nature lover.:) So, did any of your eggs survive?
We miss you all, but it looks like you are having such amazing experiences. Thanks for sharing.
Kate--I know what I'm writing for my letter. Be excited. Plus, your pictures are gorgeous and I loved the pictures of your kids at the castle with their faces in the board painted thing. What do you call that? Anyway, ta ta.
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