After a supper of spinach calzones, and a few private errands at some local souvenir shops, mom and I strolled toward our B&B home. The streets are lined with quaint coastal homes from the last era, flourishing with beach flowers and blooms of all fragrant kinds.
We passed a Congregational Church with a white porch and green steeple. Tonight a pianist holds a concert inside, so we hear only faint musical notes through closed doors.
A few steps down is a nostalgic Episcopal whose stained glass scenes are half framed in ivy. This Sunday evening is choir practice, and what a practice it is. The Wonders Of God boom through the open oak doors, and Mom and I peer inside for a minute to listen before we adopt a pew and enjoy it for a while.
Finally, we return to the street and turn down a nearby road toward the Bar Harbor Baptist, but it is unfortunately empty and locked.
Again we head toward the Episcopal, wavering off-course when we hear the concert pianist.
Since the choir director is giving directions, we wander into the space between the Congregational and the Episcopal- it is a clean little cemetery of white headstones dating two and three hundred years back. These happy dead pleasure in the clashing and complimentary praises of piano and choir, so we join them.
There is something to be said for a beautiful cathedral that was built to bring glory to God. The Lord God is One, and He created us and the earth. So we may enjoy making lovely the things that He put such a value on.
Our bodies are God's precious and priceless temples that we ought take careful care of and may enjoy embellishing as sons and daughters of the King, keeping clear of vanity.
Our homes are little castles and sanctuaries that we may decorate and run as special places for our families.
Our work is actually the Lord's if we do it as unto Him. We should do our work well and cheerfully.
Ourselves, our homes, our work- nothing should become idols that replace the One whom it is all meant to bring glory to.
But when we sincerely do things like these, we may safely take pride in ourselves as servants that are loved and made holy.