What's on your mind?....

There's something about the open air that does a person good.  I was at the lake with my best friend and her family this weekend and although we were blessed with the comforts of their cabin, I enjoyed being able to take in the natural scene of trees and water that surrounded me.  I love going to the lake because when I get out on the water I feel like I am in the middle of the wilderness and for a moment, civilization is forgotten.  The whole idea of escaping to a vacation house it wonderful to me because a person can get lost in the business of their own life and if we don't refresh ourselves, we will just run on empty until we pass out.  I have to say that nothing feels better than laying down on a boat and soaking up some fresh vitamin D with the wind blowing just enough to keep you from burning up.  Ok I take that back, laying out on the beach with a perfect breeze, sand at your feet and ocean waves in your ears is near perfection.  I tell you, if I could sit next to an ocean for the rest of my life I think I would be content.  It's funny that we now make noise machines that replicate the sounds of nature to fall asleep.  God knew what He was doing when He made each sound and obviously we are the ones messing things up by trying to prevent ourselves from hearing them! Although, I do not think I could sleep if I knew there were as many bugs as I hear on my noise maker right outside my window.. haha Anyways, there is just something about nature that, once surrounded, our bodies feel more at ease.  I feel like I can breathe deeper surrounded by mountains or on a beach with only ocean and empty sand in my view.  I hate traveling to places filled with tourists because I cannot relax.  It was nice being able to wake up and look outside the window at a huge lake and know that my internet on my phone wouldn't work.  As much as I like the internet, knowing that I don't have it gives me a little feeling of peace because I can escape any busy gossip or pointless status/tweet and clear my head.  It's weird that when I am reading those things I don't mind, and even enjoy seeing what goes on in other peoples lives but knowing that I can't eliminates the option and leaves me with opportunity to use my time elsewhere.  I feel like my generation especially has become so dependent on status updates and picture files to keep up with each others lives that the process of calling someone up and asking themselves has become almost unnecessary.  Why ask the person if you already know from their facebook page? I do this ALL the time and it's even to people I don't know!  It's so addicting!  I think after this I'll go delete anyone I don't personally know.... hahah or maybe I will just train myself to not be a creeper- I love that facebook has brought a new lighter meaning to the word "stalker" - because now when I hear it I don't picture the scary guy with binoculars but the girl clicking and clicking through some ones pictures on facebook. I almost feel like I am breaking the rules of my human nature by being able to see what someone is doing all day everyday.  It's like twitter has made us partially omniscient.  I wonder what Jesus would have put as His status? I don't know but I would have "liked" it.