Walking at Lawrencetown Beach

Enjoying a walk with Lisa and Stella--note that Lawrencetown beach is in the background. This was a typical spring day with a good amount of sunshine and abit of a nippy wind.

Beautiful patterns are sculpted on the sand. One thing that we enjoy about our almost daily observations on the beach is that each day the beach changes depending on the wave and wind action.

glorious spring

Each day we are checking for signs of spring. The day we came home from our weekend in D.C. we received about 7-8 cm of snow. The snow has now disappeared. Today was +13 degrees C. at one point in the day. We see the tulips coming up through the ground, rhubarb is up, and we heard a loon today. All very wonderful and hopeful. The above picture was taken on our walk yesterday--close to Cow Bay in Cole Harbour. Part of the Trans Canada trail joins into this park. Some people said that they spotted pussy willlows here yesterday.

Today we enjoyed a nice long walk at Conrad Beach.(about 15 minute drive from our house). It was at low tide so there was alot of sand. Fog was trying to descend upon us from time to time. The birds were sounding cheerful.

Weekend in D.C.

Last week we had a wonderful weekend in D.C. with our children. Besides enjoying a few days of spring like weather--the cherry trees and magnolias were blooming, we had a few inspiring and challenging days of prayer. The purpose of our trip was to attend the Global Prayer Gathering for International Justice Mission, the organization for whom Andrey works. It was wonderful to experience together as a family the messages of justice, hope and joy. "Joy is the priceless treasure found in a field of suffering or sorrow." Gary Haugen,
CEO.

The weekend's program comprised of concerts by some very good musicians--Sara Groves and Ten Shekel Shirt, worship times, praying for specific IJM operations--prayer rooms were designated for each country served by IJM. Updates are given at those times in regards to issues which the IJM staff is working on in their country and what is happening. Countless stories were told of success and some which were not successful and where evil continues. Those are the difficult ones. In any case you may check for more information if you wish on the following website: http://www.ijm.org/

By the way, the picture was taken in a mall--you will notice that a fifth person appears in the picture in between Andrey and Mike--she was someone just standing randomly--not part of our group. Funny how that happened.