ICE OUT

Just recently my two of my favorite words were mentioned....Ice Out. This means that the ice is out at "my" lake. Yes, its mine but I will share. Once the ice is out, its time to start thinking summer and heading up to the lake. Now, for those that have been there, I know I am spoiled in what it means to be at the cabin. I won't deny it, I love it there. I am actually quiet and still (most of the time) while I am there. Getting up with the birds, having my coffee on the deck listening to the water crash on the beach. Perfection. Then after a long day of playing, its off to have a glass of wine with my mom on the pontoon while my dad cruises us around the lake. Perfection again. Add a few friends and more family...well you get my drift.

While running today, I started thinking about how people need an Ice Out day too. Sometimes our hearts get kinda cold to the world and to the people around us. We get stuck in a freeze of the way life is going and we can't seem to break free from it. It can be cold, hard and bleak.

Just think back to that first day we had of sunshine. Everyone was outside enjoying the day, their neighbors and just enjoying the feel of the warm sunshine. Our hearts need that too.

Where do we get that sunshine though? Hold on....ready for it! You have to give it...to get it. I remember being told that you should always leave something better than how you found it. It goes for people too. Give warmth and sunshine to others and I promise as the ice melts you will have that sunshine reflected back to you.

Ah...reflections...thats for another time. But I digress....

As I sit here pondering a quick trip up north next week during spring break, I get excited to put on my "cabin" jeans and say hello to the lake. How I have missed her.

I have to ask, the ice is out at the lake, but is it out of me? How about you?