Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
Israel (Jacob) said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.” Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground. ~ Genesis 48:11-12 Jacob has not forgotten The One Who made this meeting happen and he doesn’t hesitate to give testimony to that fact. Things have come around again; as Jacob had his time of bowing to Joseph in deference to Joseph’s position in Egypt, and now, Joseph bows in deference to his father. In times past, bowing was always a sign of humbleness before someone greater than yourself. (think – bow your head to pray, or kneel or lay prostrate before the Father in worship and prayer) Especially when you wanted something from them – a blessing of some sort. Joseph wants a blessing for his two sons from his father Jacob and I suspect Joseph knew how important that blessing truly was, because Joseph walked closely with God. I suspect he knew that Jacob carried with him the future blessing of God Himself and he wants his sons to be part of that blessing.
We visited small town Cheriton Baptist Church today. It’s located sorta near Cape Charles. Wonderful service! Wonderful servants! And we laughed quite a bit as well – at the kids, the staff and the pastor! It was so good to worship where there’s Joy in the Lord!
Afterwards, we stopped at Hardee’s to gain sustenance for our grocery shopping spree, and then home.
A few times since we’ve been here, Blaine’s gone off to get some exercise on his bike while I sit chained to my laptop trying to get caught up on the blog. Don’t feel too badly for me though. He comes back dripping with sweat from head to toe, while I’m comfortable basking in the air conditioning and quiet. Besides, I got in all the exercise I care for today walking the aisles in Food Lion. 😊
It’s rather strange here in our little cul-de-sac. It’s like visiting the UN, there are so many languages and accents spoken here! Some we recognize – like Spanish, but most we don’t. But I can say that for the most part, they seem to be Europeans of some sort or other. One guy looked Greek to me, but whadda I know?
I called the Head Ranger this afternoon.
We came home from church, to a mess at the neighbor’s. Our nice, neat organized couple (with an adorable puppy) who were staying in a tent, left with their boat around 8:30am this morning. While they were gone, new people moved in – sort of right on top of their tent and stuff they’d left behind! Of course, check out IS 1pm and the tent people showed up around 1:30.
The new neighbors aren’t speaking English. Apparently one of those Europeans I mentioned earlier. And they all but ignored us when we said, “Hi”. Once the tent people left, they set up 11 chairs around their campfire pit and tied their puppy with a short leash to their picnic table.
And then the entire family left for the beach!
It didn’t take long for the puppy to wind itself around the picnic table. I called the Ranger. He came out about 15 minutes later, refilled the puppy’s small water bowl and told Blaine there wasn’t much he could do. Said it was better off here than with them on the hot beach. Good grief! Poor thing! I’m half tempted to set it loose, but it’d probably follow me home and plant itself outside our door, and then the jig would be up. . . .
Later this afternoon, Blaine went for another bike ride and brought home a couple more pictures. He also discovered the lodges and cabins they have at this Park. The lodges are each quite large – 4 bedrooms! And the cabins are pretty nice too. We’re wondering about a family vacation here next summer . . . .