Palm Coast, Florida
January - March 2021
If you were to close your eyes and imagine an idyllic peaceful setting, you might picture yourself in a hammock on a tranquil beach somewhere.
The early inhabitants of northeast Florida had a name for the elevated stands of tropical hardwoods in the surrounding marsh on the barrier islands and coastlands. That name was "hammock," and it meant "a cool and shady place, a peaceful place."
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| A trail through the hammock |
A peaceful place is exactly what we were looking for in the Covid season of 2021. We wanted to be on the boat, but our normal winter destination of the Bahamas couldn’t roll out the welcome mat. So we settled in
to the Hammock at Palm Coast. Specifically, the Marina at Hammock Beach Resort. What a perfectly peaceful place it was for a few months!
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| Hammock Beach Resort -- the resort was more posh than the marina, but the marina was special too. |
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| Keith's dad and his wife, Miriam came to visit. |
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| It was great to have company to enjoy this part of Florida that we love so much, |
During the high season of Covid, "pivot" was the word of the hour. Everybody's life changed suddenly. In this not-according-to-plan time, we had to shed non-essentials. This made us stop and consider what matters most -- adventures and getaways are great but don't begin to compare with the people we love and, even more, the God who loves us.
Still, we were tremendously grateful that by the winter of 2021, Plan B allowed us to spend the winter in the peaceful Hammock.
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| Cinnamon Beach |
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It's usually through our hard times, the unexpected and not-according-to-plan times,
that we experience God in more intimate ways.
Wendy Moore
