With very little speech occurring I sat at the kitchen counter this evening
and watched my wife prepare our light supper. One of life's great pleasures
is watching someone you love. If being apart from a loved one and not being
able to see them is one of life's trials then being with a loved one and
seeing them is one of life's greatest blessings.

I do so enjoy being with my grandchildren. While the noise they make could
be cacophony to someone else, it is to me finer than the fruit of any
composer. Some of the best weekends I have ever experienced are not ones
filled with activity, but instead ones filled with loved ones presence.

Matthew 9:36 is an enjoyable verse, "When he saw the multitudes, he was
moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered
abroad, as sheep having no shepherd." Jesus enjoyed watching people. In
Matthew 25 we read, "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand,
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world." Verse after verse we hear Jesus say, "Come."
When we do that not only can He watch us but we can watch him.

Robert Frost once wrote, "

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves
away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha'n't be gone long.-You come
too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf that's standing by the mother. It's
so young, it totters when she licks it with her tongue. I sha'n't be gone
long.-You come too."

It is quite grand to watch people we love