I love when sometimes it seems that I get it right. Most of the time I
don't feel that way and it gets to me, very often. Every day I pray that the
Holy Spirit will be more present within me than the day before and yet at the
end of the day, I wonder, did He really do that? Was I truly guided by Him in my
every day life? Some days it seems like there is constant rush and no leading.
The other morning though, in my quiet time, I was asking the Lord something
to do for Isaiah's last week before he goes to middle school, that would make a
happy day for him. He has just went to Aquatica with his sister Ashley and that
was the main thing he had wanted to do over the summer. He'd already been
blessed with a Tennessee vacation and a cool vacation with his parents to
several Florida springs as well to Devil's Den, which I hear is pretty beautiful
and awesome. I had thought about some Orlando activities, such as Medieval Times
or Arabian Nights or the Titanic but he'd been there before.
Then the thought: Ron Jon's Surf Shop came to me. Now that seemed a bit
crazy as it is just a store in Cocoa Beach but it is deemed the largest surf
shop in the world, I believe. The main activity he did this summer was get a
surfboard and learn to surf, first by Uncle Keith and then at surf camp this
month. It seemed like the Lord said, "He started the summer surfing and now end
it in the same way." I still wrestled a bit with was it the Lord I was hearing
and didn't tell him ahead of time as I wanted it to be a surprise.
Another thing he like is to sleep in so Thursday he got to sleep in and
then I told him we were doing a day trip out of town.
"Pick where you want to go to lunch, Isaiah and then we'll head to Cocoa
beach to Ron Jon's. Oh, and put your surfboard in the van in case we try the
waves out there." You'd thought I'd told him we were going to another state, he
was so excited. We had a great lunch at Pollo Tropical and I tried a bowl that
rivals KFC's. Mashed potatoes, pulled pork, corn, onions and peppers, gravy and
guacamole on top. Wow! Isaiah had his favorite half chicken platter with black
beans and rice.
Then on the way to Cocoa and that is when I thought I really didn't hear
right as we drove through some heavy rains. Lo and behold, as we headed east on
528 the clouds disappeared and we drove into a sunny day. I told Isaiah the Lord
gave him a God-pocket of sunshine. Ron Jon's was all that we thought it might be
and another God-moment was when I let him try on a wetsuit. They were all over
$70 and I didn't really plan on getting him one until his birthday, but when he
tried on a size 12 the lady came over and told us she had one in the rental
store across the street for $25. If it fit him and we wanted it, she'd talk to
the manager and see if he'd go lower on the price. Praise the good Lord we
walked out of there with a wetsuit for $20.
By then Isaiah was dying to surf, so we headed over to the beach and he
gave it a try. I have to say I like our beaches better; they have very few beach
parks, it seemed and the parking is pretty expensive. But the lady (our angel)
from Ron Jon's said for us to use their free parking. It's a real perk to live
in the Daytona area and be able to drive on the beach as opposed to us walking
over with that surfboard.
I saw a big porpoise that I thought was a shark jumping a lot out in the
deep and then a small shark in very shallow water. Isaiah was convinced it was a
huge shark that was targeting him, but it was near the end of our time there and
the shark was heading out to sea. He has a "big" shark story that he is sticking
with although I'll still tell my point of view of it. We got out as soon as I
saw it and thank the Lord it was at the end of the day so all in all, our day
trip was good.
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