It is a quiet Sunday here on the central Oregon Coast . I think both Lori
and I are missing some of our friends and our Church family back in Nashville .
Its been a difficult few days for them . The Lord has called the Sister of one
dear friend home , and has called the beloved wife of another home . We are
saddened by these losses , and yet we know both are with Him in Heaven . And
yet we feel loss.
We are at the mid point of our stay , and i am still puzzling over what
this stay means for me. Where is it leading me ? What is this connection I
seem to have with the Ocean , especially the Oregon Coast. I have spent time
here reexamining my child hood and my friendships . I have connected so much
of who I am to this place where I grew up .
I am finding myself inspired to ponder but I do not know what I should be
pondering . I have come to the conclusion that each wave I see is part of Gods
plan . Not only the Wave but each particle of the wave is precisely where God
intends it to be . The purpose , the direction , the velocity of each wave is
perfectly sculpted by God , and likewise I believe I am as well .
When you see the waves arrive ...it is their arrival that makes the impact
, the how and why they began their journey is an academic exercise that has no
bearing on their destination ...and their destination , their arrival is not and
end unto itself . All this the waves the erosion the thinking the reminiscing
...is moving me on my own Journey .
I am left between the past and the future in the place we call now . and
Now is a moving target . the Now of my existence when I typed above is gone it
is past .
All terribly confusing especially if I believe it is up to me to sort it
all out . But what if I am part of a plan , what if it is God who is working
in me and has been working in this body I call me from the beginning of time ?
Improbable ? Perhaps ..but then again I have breathed the air that
Abraham Breathed , I have been washed in the water that Jesus was baptized in.
i have eaten food that has been nourished by the desiccation of animals long
thought to be extinct .
As the Teacher said "there is nothing new under the sun" . and as the
Poet said " I am stardust " and as the Bible says " In Him all things hold
together " He is in all and through all .
Its a quiet Sunday here on the beach , my Brother and His wife are with us
. Lori across the table from me is working on her projects tapping gently on a
laptop . Bob is sitting at the couch absorbed in some correspondence he is
working on , Susan is in the Kitchen perfecting pork soup .
It is noontime here ....in Nashville our friends are just winding up lunch
after church in Smyrna . There announcements were made about memorials and
funerals . Praise was offered freely and lavishly to the Lord who sends the
waves landing squarely in front of the rental house we are in .
The waves press forward and in time will impact those who live thousands of
miles away where there is no ocean shoreline . This beach is held in the Grasp
and will of its ocean boundary , and I am held in the Grasp and the will of the
One who made it all ...
Its a quiet Sunday here on the Beach .
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