The Beach

I sometimes miss the beach so much it's hard not to even write about it. It is truly one of God's amazing creations that I miss the most. Waking up and going to the beach early in the morning with no one around and just walking. I would think of everything and give it all away to the waves as if they took my worries with them. I would collect sand dollars by the dozen on each walk and once I even saw a dolphin! You just can't make a more perfect morning as one spent on the beach. You feel God's presence everywhere around you.

The waves serenade you into a long meditative state in which you figure out all of the world's biggest problems and come up with brilliant solutions to your own. It's as if you step into a magical place and the infinite sea makes you feel so amazingly small. I believe we should all feel this way. Small that is. We are so tiny, living in a tiny world with our tiny issues. Yet we as egotistical beings make them all so enormous and complex.



I sometimes feel that way especially now that I am away from the ocean. I need that sense of feeling small again. That the ridiculous issues I feel are so very pressing, may become small again. Not that our problems are not something we should care about. I'm really just referring to how we deal or perceive them, I suppose.

I miss the beach, the ocean , the sun rising and setting on such beauty. But I do have my memories of what it was like to walk every morning on the beach before going to work. That feeling can never be taken away. Just like the presence of God can never be taken away, it's up to us to preserve it all within and never lose sight of what really matters in the end.

Maria :)