History, Taverns, and Hot Apple Cider

I spent the day with my wonderful husband in Gettysburg, PA. We have been together for three years from the time we started dating. Gettysburg is one of our favorite spots. We both love the historic feel, and the monstrous trees that are usually covered in bright hues of red and orange, and glistening with snow flakes when we make a visit.  

We went to Gettysburg for one of our first dates, two years ago. Spent a New Year's Day with my family walking around the battlefield. Then last November he asked me to marry him on Little Round Top. And today we made the drive there for the first time as husband and wife. Our history at Gettysburg is only beginning. 

Today, we ate baked onion soup and drank hot apple cider at The Dobbin House, our favorite restaurant there. It is an adorable little restaurant which mimics a colonial tavern. This means about thirty tables that are crammed side by side, each lit with a single white candle in a cast iron candle stick. It transports us back in time. The smells, the close conversations of others all around us, and the simple presentation of delicious, yet classic food. Let me tell you, it is comfort food to the max. This fitted the mood perfectly because today's forecast was cold, cloudy, rain-filled, and foggy. 

Even though some people dislike the dreary, rainy days. I am a rare breed because I love a good, chilled to the bone, need a big rain coat, must wear fuzzy socks under tall black boots, hood up, rainy day. Even though it leaves me saying, "I'm freezing!" pretty much the entire day. But I guess that is what soup, sweaters, and snuggling is for. 

While my husband drove through the rain, I had the chance to have a small devotion. Here is a verse that was quite the encouragement to me this morning as we made the trek to Gettysburg. 

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." -Psalm 73:26

This verse helps remind me that I am only human. I do and will fail. Always. But be encouraged, dear friend, because the Lord does not and will not fail. Ever. He is our strength! And He does and will remain to be my portion. Forever, because even baked onion soup will not fulfill you. 

Let this verse warm your soul on this dreary fall evening and night. And now go and drink a delicious mug of warmed apple cider with a cinnamon stick and apple slice. 

Want more? Read Psalm chapter 73