Lake Lessons Like Life

Fay and I spent New Years Day by ourselves. Having had some friends over the night before and staying up until past midnight, I didn't feel a twinge of guilt in my conscience for sitting at the breakfast table at 9 o'clock instead of 7 a.m. In any case, it seemed to be the right time. Daylight had once again revealed the beauty of the winter landscape of mountains; tree limbs, covered with snow, gently moving as if rocking an infant in a cradle. The lake is covered with a solid blanket of ice.

As I sipped my coffee and looked onto Okanagan Lake, which from our perspective is less than 5 Kilometers long by about 2 km. wide and surrounded by mountains, a new thought came to me. I should say, ordinary common sense became profound wisdom. In reality the Okanagan Lake is over 100 kilometers long, but we can't see around the bend or over the mountains. So, the familiar cliche, a day at a time takes on a whole new meaning on the first day of the year. We don't know what's around the bend (tomorrow). Faith compels us to go there. Life's journey has many surprises but we will not necessarily know what they are until we get to the bend.