Beachside Musings

3/19/08
2:25 pm

If social norms allowed, I would throw back my head and moan...a deep, resonating soul cry....because there’s some stuff in there I need to get out.
Years and years of pressure, frustration, restrictions. How I long to be free! Free to go and come...be heard or be silent as I please. I need it. I needed this time....time to come to the edge of the earth and cast my cares on the water.

3/20/08
12:23 pm

I’m sitting out here in the ocean. Don’t worry, I’m not getting wet. No, I’m not on a boat either (although that would be nice). I’m perched on a rock wall, a peninsula jutting out into the gulf. And suddenly...I am aware of just how finite my existence is. The waves roll in..one after another. Merging together and folding over each other...disappearing and reappearing...crashing against the shore and the rocks over and over and over.

And so it has been since time immemorial....just as it is now...as it will be long after I have returned to dust. I am but a flicker in time...a flash of light. But let my light so shine before men, that they may see my good works and glorify the Father in heaven*.

-AFH

* derived from Matthew 5:16