Ocean Bound

I think that part of the journey of life must intersect every so often with the ocean. I long for it to be just a bit of therapy. We have two trips to the ocean planned in the next few months. Next week we will see the California Coast and in August the Oregon one. The peacefulness, giganticness, powerfulness of it....you can't help but see Jesus in the ocean. We need the peace it brings, we need the power it brings, we need our hearts to experience the ocean. It has been 4 years to the day, today, that we have been there. This day four years ago we were playing frisbee on the beach, unbeknownst to us just what sort of journey our marriage would bring. It has been so fulfilling, so fun filled and romantic and life giving and just everything we could hope for and more. What we did not imagine back four years ago on the beach was the pain, the hard times, the downs. It is these hard times that meld themselves together with the joys to make us whole. Jesus never leaves us. Remember that footprints poem? That was on a beach. Jesus carried in that poem. We need carried now. We need wrapped in his arms. We know he is there. Jesus met Peter and the Disclipes on the beach. May he meet us at the beach....