Ride ya bike!

For those of you who know me the best....you know I really enjoy riding bikes and  I used to own a awesome pink beach cruiser that I was in love with.. I picked it out freshmen year of high school and then forgot all about it. On graduation night senior year I came home and there was my pink bike. My dad had remembered all those years and it meant so much to me. Sadly, some mean guy stole it my freshmen year of college. I filed a police report but apparently they had better things to worry about and I never found it.

A few days ago I got up from the dinner table and told my family I was going to go on a bike ride (I would be riding a really old bike from 5th grade). My brother said to me (only because he didn't want me to leave him),"would you rather take a bike ride or would you rather go buy a new bike?" I am now a proud owner of a beautiful cruiser.

all pictures were taken on my bike ride today.

Today I took it for the first  ride and I was reminded of why I love riding bikes so much. It is where  I do my best thinking. It is where I do a lot of praying. It is where I do a lot of venting and thanking God. It is where I sometime cry and sometimes smile. It is somewhere, where no one can bother me. It all happens on my bike.

I come from a place where people still hang there clothes on the line and where my neighbors live two corn fields away. A place where there is not a stop light to be found and the only store is a gas station called Weeksville Grocery where we buy red hotdogs and hunnybuns. Today on my bike ride I realized how blessed I am to live in the middle of nowhere in this little town. I think I live in the most beautiful place in the world. I worked at Disney World for a while and people say that it is "the happiest place on earth." I would argue. There, you admire man made beauty. Here, in the country, you can admire God made beauty, making it the happiest place on earth. My favorite thing to do on my bike rides is to soak in the awesomeness of Gods creation.

Today in Sunday school I taught the 2 and 3 year olds that God created the world and everything in it. With that on my mind I appreciated everything a lot more today. God's creation amazes me so much.

I guess the moral of this blog post................is to go on a bike ride! : ).....oh, and be thankful for God's beauty!

"God created the world, and everything in it" -Acts 17:24