Further In

When I see my two favorite elements of nature meet – the sea and the sky - that is a moment when I feel like I've stepped into the shelter of home. And when God takes up His mighty paintbrush and writes His signature across the heavens, all you can hear from me is a sharp intake of breath. Photographs do Him no justice. His work is real and alive while mine is at best a mirror image. But I persist for this longing to create and preserve and immortalize is what He has placed in me and I will use it to His glory.   

I am an island girl through and through. The mountains, the valleys, the plains all are lovely but the beach and the ocean is where my heart is. Take away the sea and something in me goes missing but often I don't realise it until I see my ocean again and breathe the salt-kissed air. My wide-open space is the sea and the sand and the sky. It used to make me sad that there would be no sea in heaven but I know that God has something even better than that planned for us. I can hardly wait.

When I look out at this great expanse it's humbling. God in His greatness looks upon me in my smallness yet stretches out His hand and says "Follow Me." "As far as the east is from the west, so far have I removed your transgression. I will have compassion upon you and will cast all your iniquity into the depths of the sea." 

It is a tear of joy I shed.

As the dying embers of the sun begin to fade and I turn to go, my heartbeat echoes: Amen Lord, amen.

[Psalm 103:12; Micah 7:19]