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My Aruba story … memories of loyal followers

Continued from Page 8 never take these sights … these sounds … for ….. I will do whatever or go wherever you
granted. It all just fills my heart with love and want. BUT MY MORNINGS ARE MINE … THEY

For the next hour … I walk and I talk to God. happiness. Today … I am completed … I am FILL MY SOUL!
Every day I thank him FOR THIS … exactly what in my “happy place,” … I have my heart back. When the sad departure day arrives, I gather

I am experiencing at that moment. My be- I am home, in my beloved Aruba up as many of ARUBA TODAY as I can without
loved ARUBA, one of the biggest blessings of I arrive back at Ocean Club or Surf Club and feeling totally selfish (usually 5-10). I also have
my life. I pray and I thank him for all my Aru- it is now breakfast time. I go to the lobby café been saving my others from previous days af-
ban friends, asking him to always hold them and greet all my friends there, feeling the love. ter reading them. When I am in the “crying
in his loving arms … keeping them safe and I get my vanilla latte’ and muffin, and then vis- room” at the airport I don’t read a book …
keeping them healthy. I thank him for the it the front lobby desk to say hello to the day no, I pull out copies of ARUBA TODAY … know-
beauty of this island and all the love it wraps crew, and share the love. I get back to my ing that they will have to sustain me until I am
us all in. chair, and settle all in with my latte’ and my able to return to Aruba … where as you know
There are just a few people on the beach at ARUBA TODAY. Life is good … it gets no better …. I will leave my heart when I walk down that

7 AM … many of them I have known for 10-20 than this … I am filled with love and happiness. jet bridge. I LOVE YOU ARUBA!q
years (or more), yet we only see each other This 2nd time of going through ARUBA TODAY I
during this space in time every year, at this read every word and look at every picture. It
beautiful island that we all love so much. We keeps me connected to the world outside of
greet one another like long lost friends. In be- paradise to let me know what is happening.
tween, I see new faces … and I try to transfer YES – YES – YES, I am in my happy place. Next,
that love, and share that joy that we have in I pick up my Bible and do my Bible Study ….
common BECAUSE WE ARE HERE … living our Because God has given me so much, I must
dream. Some days I will see local Aruban fam- not neglect His Words to me contained within.
ilies arriving to spend the day at the beach. It Later on in the day I will go through ARUBA
makes my heart smile watching them, and it TODAY one last time, specifically to read over
fills me with great joy. If I find that they under- all the advertising to make sure I did not miss
stand English I will thank them for sharing their anything that we may want to take advan-
beautiful island with us. I always want them to tage of.
know that not only do we love their island, but These … my friends are “my Aruba mornings,”
we respect it … and we appreciate them al- and I am very selfish with them. I always want
lowing us to share it. I love their smiling faces, them to stay the same. When friends come

and the laughter of the children as they play. with us, they soon learn that the afternoons
I take the time on this walk every morning to and evenings are certainly subject to change