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Happy 2nd Anniversary

I just realized today’s date.  It was two years ago this past Saturday, that we closed on 10 Cuttin Sage.  It was also two years ago today that Hurricane Sandy hit the Outer Banks.  Imagine what we were feeling when we had to evacuate an island where we had JUST closed on a house!  Our insurance hadn’t even kicked in yet!  It was a real exercise in faith because we knew that God had had His hand in all of it and we knew that He would carry us and Ocracoke through the storm.  We never worried because we put it in His great hands.

This blog started as a marketing tool and has ended up a memoir of sorts about life, family, friendships, love of nature and God’s grace.  It has been said (I can’t remember who, perhaps Luther??) that the heart is an idol factory.  My love for a cottage on Ocracoke is not about an idol in my life, but a gift from God to bless people, a means for good stewardship, and a way to glorify Him, which I can do in a blog.  So here’s to His glory and the fact that He has full ownership of 10 Cuttin Sage.  He has only given it to us for a season.

I have written previously about how God uses nature to explain to me who He is.  Because I love His creation, I have an easy time worshipping Him every time I look out a window or walk through my yard; stare at the mountains surrounding my home, or visit Ocracoke and just sit on our little dock, on our little postage stamp lot, and stare out at the marshland.  God is truly a grace-giver and we are all, in some ways, recipients of it.  However, for those who really do understand grace and God and sin and redemption, God is a Savior, too, and beckons us to follow Him by accepting His Son, His forgiveness of our sins and our learning to be just like Him.

God has put eternity in our hearts, and when we are enthralled by something, be it nature, music, poetry, anything beautiful, we have a craving to get to the very heart of whoever created that thing. What we are really craving is Heaven and God and Jesus Christ and all the Glory of the Trinity. (C.S. Lewis wrote about something very similar and I encourage the reading of his great writings).  

Thus, this blog is so much more than a story about a little cottage on a little island off shore of a little sound.  It’s about a life of grace.

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  1. Hi we are staying in your house for new year. It looks great. We have stayed here many times but this is the first time since it changed owners. The new mattresses are fabulous as is the pocket door. We actually rented it to have a practice space in the little dock house. Sadly it is locked but maybe next time. I hope you keep it mostly empty. Maybe a tea house. / Meditation house. I hope you put in a nice wood floor. good for yoga and soo much cleaner. And no tv. Just a nice quiet away place. Musicians and artist would love such a space. Both my husband and daughter are musicians and a place for them to practice is key. they do not stop on vacation. The house already has a wonderful creative spiritual energy. I would work that.

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    1. Thank you for your lovely comments. I’m so very sorry we did not get to you in time to let you use the dock house. We were in the process of renovating it. It is now finished and will be available to use next time you’re there! I love your idea for a meditation house! It will have a TV but I think it will still be a great place to be quiet, read, and watch the wildlife on the canal. It will also be fresh and clean with a new floor! Thanks again!

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