Make Today Ridiculously Amazing

For anyone who knows me, knows that I am a sucker for the sea and for food. Thank goodness last night fed my need for both, and a need to have an extra long run in the morning based on the caloric intake of goodness that I consumed tonight! Savannah and Hilton Head have so many eccentric places to offer, and we all know I love different! One of my favorite places on the Hilton Head coast is a place called Burkes Beach. It’s a little hidden gem that only the locals know about. The sunset was absolutely incredible tonight and the temperature was perfect- in the high 70’s by the time the sun was setting. Hello sweet September! Now that’s what I consider perfection! One of the things I love about the beaches of Hilton Head is that they allow dogs, and they were everywhere tonight. Unfortunately my fur children did not get the joy of this experience, but as soon as I saw them all galavanting through the sand it made me wish they were right there with me. As the fiery blue and orange sun was setting behind the Carolina trees, I noticed dragon flies the size of a small bat that were everywhere! I’ve never seen anything like it. Some consider dragon flies a “spirit animal” which I don’t believe in, but I do believe it was a special little surprise from the good Lord above. Butterflies have always been my special little surprise, but tonight it was the beauty of dragonflies.

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After watching the sun disappear on the shores of Carolina, the evening was followed by a perfect and quintessential dinner at a local downtown Bluffton restaurant called May River Grill. I have always wanted to try this little hidden gem, but everytime I am there, it’s on Sundays and they are closed. Thank goodness for random experiences on a September Friday night. This place was excellent. It had me smitten from the second I walked in! It’s the small things that make me happy. Ask me to go to a chain restaurant and I may look at you like you are crazy, but take me to a golden gem of a local restaurant and you will find me grinning ear to ear. The grill’s facade is very unassuming, but you will be amazed at what the inside holds. You must never judge a book by it’s cover! It has an extensive menu with superb service along with a vast wine menu. The May River Grill is a proponent of using local seafood and selections to keep their dishes fresh and inventive.They had a list of specials that change daily. When the chef never stops experimenting with new flavors and foods, that’s when you know when you are in a great restaurant! I love how you watch the kitchen while your food is being prepared. The service, drinks, presentation, food, and energy were incredible. Delicious is the bottom line, absolutely loved it and would highly recommend to anyone! Coming from a girl who has a weak spot for any sweet that is put in front of me, dessert is a necessity at May River Grill. Serious as a heart attack (which you might have when you put a piece of this goodness in your mouth) You won’t regret it, promise! I have traveled to restaurants all over the world, and I must say for this type of food and atmosphere, this has it’s very own special spot on the top of my list. The best part for me being that it’s right around the corner! Beyond thankful for fiery sunsets, sand between my toes, decadent food, and company that never gets old!

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The McLeod's

Welcome to our blog! We’re glad you stopped by and we hope you come back and visit. We want you to be a part of our journey! We are John and Chelsea McLeod. Best friends who are embracing the most precious gift of marriage and life. On the way to be full time missionaries and currently living a life mentoring those broken by addiction from both sides of the pain- loved ones and those struggling with addiction. Here you will find our recorded histories of life, love, struggles, and the journeys that encompass our wanderlust spirits all with an unfailing love for God and His ever so perfect redemption and grace over our lives. Here lies a safe place where our minds wander off into the deepest places with documentation to never be erased. We don’t want our memories to fall between the cracks somewhere, so we write. We don’t want to forget how far God has brought us, so we make records that will prayerfully live on for generations and give others hope who have lost theirs. We met in the most divine of appointments thousands of miles apart that only God could orchestrate. Had our first date watching a fiery sunset go down over the Georgia coast, and ultimately fell in love over kindred spirits that beat for where and what God passionately filled our hearts with. Hindsight, and years later, we can see that God had big plans all along that we couldn’t see. Through our broken pasts, He was preparing us for each other and a future of redemption and testimony. {{{{Everyone has a story and this is ours:}}}}} He’s a Georgia boy, she’s a Carolina girl. ----Hi, I’m Chelsea!---- I’m a native Carolina girl who loves to explore anywhere I’ve never been. An old soul and an extroverted-introvert with a deep heart that overflows with passion and a hunger for God to use me to change this world for the better. Mysterious and meek to the eye, and particularly passionate for the very things that set my heart on fire, especially the things and people that my heart beats for. I get filled up in the untouched outdoors where I can always see and feel His splendor. I am a Master cosmetologist by trade with a BA in Social Work and Counseling. These which intermix daily. I absolutely love the career that God has placed me in and daily, it allows me to love on people all around me. If I can make one person smile a day, my heart holds a fullness that keeps me coming back for more. I believe in forgiveness and miracles because I’ve witnessed them both. I don’t want my life to be about what I accomplished but what God accomplished through me. To me, I’ve learned that in life there is good and bad, right and wrong, excuses and no excuses. But alongside of these very things is engulfed with a ton of grace, growth, and redemption. I don’t ever want to pay the cost of not following my heart, by spending the rest of my life wishing I had. ----Hi, I’m John!---- I’m a born and bred Georgia boy where my blood runs strong with salt water. I was born and raised on the coast where everything I did was engulfed with water and the outdoors. I’m a bold soul with a gentle spirit who loves to help others in any way that I can to believe in themselves and God’s plan over their lives. By trade I hold the title of professional hunter and fisher with a 100 ton captain’s license. What started in Georgia took me out to Alaska where I found my career there, then south Florida and the open blue water. I’ve seen a lot and experienced a lot of God’s beauty and I will be forever grateful for that. Today I’ve taken on the title of “Fisher of men.” After enduring a wearisome season of addiction, God called me to use my pain to help others in addiction ministry and it has become one of the greatest joys of my life. It’s what I live for in showing people they can overcome something that most think they can’t. Offering hope where there is none. Testifying that something they always thought they would be, is only a season that God is ready and wants to use. Where Chelsea serves alongside me pouring into the loved ones. It’s where my passion is, it’s where we love to help others find freedom the same way we did. Today, Chelsea and I are grateful for our struggles because we know that what the enemy meant for evil, God used for good. Here we will write and share. Not to glorify us, but to glorify Him and what He is doing in our lives. The magnificent ways that He is moving and the unfathomable circumstances that He has and will bless us with. All glory goes to Him. We hope you enjoy!!

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