It came with a sudden crash as I lay sleeping in the caravan. There is nothing I like better than to lie out on the front seat, full length, head against the front window and let the sun soporifically filter on to my face as I drift in and out of sleep. Suddenly from such a slumber and all alone in the van I was wakened without mercy into a world of fear. My first thought was something large had driven in to the side of the caravan and knocked it for six. But there was nothing to see or feel. The bang, the shake the thud, were all gone.
It was scary. Beyond scary actually. In the land of freaky.
It turned out to be a small earthquake centred just across the bay in the southern lakes.
It was in truth nothing but for the brief time it lasted it scared the living daylights out of me.
That was abut five weeks ago now and I am still haunted by the event. It made me stop and think about the utter fragility of life and what we build our lives on. Reminded me I suppose of a favourite sunday school lesson about the two men, one who built his house on sand and the other on rock and how when trouble came the man with his house built on sand was washed away.
Made me think about what we actually value in life and how sad it is to build your life round the material things that money can buy.
We have never been rich by the standards of this country not even well off, but we didn’t build our lives on that basis, we built them on our family and our faith which guided us to the non material view of the world.
It is 40 years past since my wife and I started going out together and we have just celebrated my in-laws 65th wedding anniversary. Love, family, and all the intangible things that cost nothing are what make for lives built on rocks and not sand.
4 comments:
Happy 65th anniversary to your Inlaws Stuart and Happy anniversary to you too ~ 40 years is a lifetime and I know you enjoy those intangible things that cost nothing ~ Ally x
Iknow how scary that can be Stuart ,we had an earth qukwe here one night and Idid not like it ,now you have me humming ,after the parable of'' the wise man and his house upon the rock de daa etc de daa house upon the sand ,and his house came tumbling down '',hee hee Congratulations to Jen's Mum and Dad on their Aniversary ..love Jan xx
Wow that must of been scary.
That must have been scary I think i read about that on a few weeks ago.Happy Anniversary to you inlaws that a great accomplishment pas on my good wishes.Love Joan
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