Lessons From the Sea Part 1: Yellow Alert! When Life Toughens
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you..." Isaiah 43:3 Video of Rough Sea We were warned. There was a yellow alert. The sea was rough, angry, loud and raging. It whipped, uprooted, and took everything in its path including trees, and pillars It took trees and pillars! The waves crashed into the shore, depositing, eroding, and dragging resisting prey back into its depths before spitting some of them out on the sand; and the process was timelessly repeated. It spat out wood, shoes, shells, stone, glass and various other debris. It spat out various debris As I examined the deposits on the sand, it struck me that what it damaged was not destroyed, what it destroyed was not anhilated, and what it anhilated was not forgotten.The things it appeared to damage, destroy or anhilate left beauty in the wake of the tough experiences encountered. Dead mollusks left beautiful shells. Eroded shells revealed intricate beautiful insides. There was 'beauty in their brokenness...