What a delightful long weekend. Amy came to DC, and we visited the 2004 Folklife Festival, watched Happy Harry Potter, helped make sandwiches for the homeless after communion at church, got thoroughly drenched in record-setting thunderstorms, browsed the shops at Union Station, watched fireworks on the National Mall, drank pressed apple cider among dispensationalist hippie Christians at the Twelve Tribes’ “Rekindling The Fire” cultural event, hiked around Teddy Roosevelt Island, and got a nice big cat book.

Blessed with love and joy and rest, undeserved yet richly given. God has been good.