Rural Life

August 11, 2019

City dwellers often imagine country life as a dull, dreary existence devoid of culture and things to do or see, but although we might not have the big venues and big name groups, we aren’t cultural Neanderthals, either (with apologies to any actual Neanderthals who might be offended by such characterization). Today began worship led by as good a worship team as can be found most anywhere, and ended with listening to the Dave Golando Big Band on the Cassadaga beach. 

It was a bit challenging to dance in the grass on the hillside, but the music both times was worthy of the best moves a choreographer could invent. The ambiance of the lakeside outclasses any theater (I’ve been in some pretty classy ones, but the beach is pretty hard to beat). 

The best part is not having to fight city traffic to enjoy all this day has offered. It’s not inappropriate in the least to delight in a day like today. The writer of Ecclesiastes put it this way: 

“Go, eat your bread with joy, And drink your wine with a merry heart; For God has already accepted your works. Let your garments always be white, And let your head lack no oil. Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.”           —Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 NKJV

To be blessed by good worship, good music, and a good wife, all in a place of great beauty, is a gift divine, and worthy of great gratitude.