Ever since I was a kid riding around in my dad's truck with Jimmy Buffet's Songs You Know By Heart playing, I have longed to run away to the beach. St. Augustine, Destin, Garachine Pacific...I have always thought it would be great to live in a little tiki hut and eat coconut shrimp as a food group. It has been several years since I have been to a warm weather beach and I am looking forward to my upcoming family excursion to the Emerald Coast of Florida. Jimmy Buffet and Kenny Chesney in the CD player and hours of soaking up sunshine are just the cure after the cold, dreary winter we had this year.
In addition to the sheer fun of being a beach bum, looking out on the ocean reminds us of how infinitely small we are as individuals on this planet. God's promise to Abraham was to give him descendants like grains of sand and stars in the sky. Being outside on the beach and feeling a cool breeze mixed with warm sunshine is a great place to see how vast God's creation really is. Somehow, in that vastness, we each individually are important and cared for.
Excited about seeing the sea!
Today, man has to travel to far off places to get to the pristine beaches that were EVERYWHERE in the USA before the white man arrived and polluted the waters.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice trip.