New Moon over the beach at the Hau Tree restaurant
Good Morning God, how utterly lovely sunset was last night. There is something so lovely about a crescent moon set in a colored sky.
We were observing it, paying top dollar, while taking a classmate of Kit’s out for dinner. But, the moon and stars are a free gift to us all. There were people on the beach — who brought their beach chairs and settled in. I like having the beach free.
Dining at an expensive restaurant — expensive for us — makes me think of how we spend money. Kit is no doubt a model of how to spend money — which is, hardly at all on himself — except for running shoes and occasional trips to run marathons.
I, however, am an avid materialist. I LOVE the material world. A world filled with sunsets and iPods, with coconut water and raw macadamia nuts, with foraging trips to Ross’s or — when our daughters are here — Macy’s. I love spending hours looking at books at Barnes and Noble or going to the library. Yes, books are filled with content, and I love ideas, too. But books are also material objects to be held and loved.
But, more and more, I see material objects as Storage Problems! (Except perhaps, for earrings which are small and irresistible.)
The best things in life are free — if we are wise enough to make room for them — friends and family and YOU. Long conversations, shared prayer times, shared adventures and travels, coffee conversations and serendipitous meetings with soon to be friends. And, even, time with just myself. YOU have created a Marvelous World, God! And You have filled it with Wonderful People and such a diversity of Fellow Creatures. THANK YOU!
Story teller,
A Moment with God 
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