I always feel so in-tuned to God when I'm at the beach. It almost feels like I'm experiencing a face-to-face with Him while I'm sitting on the shoreline, just listening to His voice in the waves, or in the laughter of children playing in the sand, or in the birds looking for any bit of food they can get a hold of. Today was definitely a beach day, and even though it was super crowded I still felt the presence of my Awesome God as strong as though it were just me on that beach. It never ceases to bring me an abundance of joy, but I wonder what can I do to foster an atmosphere of this kind of closeness to God in my everyday life, while I'm driving, while I'm working, while I'm doing anything. With the upcoming move to Chattanooga I know I will find a new way to connect with God on the same level that the ocean gives me, there's plenty of beautiful hiking trails and mountains and waterfalls and the like, but I wonder if it will stir my spirit the same way. What I seek and truly desire is to feel this stirring in everything, not necessarily needed a catalyst like God's magnificent creation of the ocean or mountains. Even still I truly believe when I come home to visit and go to the beach it will always be a special time of communication between my heart and God's. Blindside has a really neat song called "Shekina." There's a line in the chorus that says "I know You're always throwing kisses from the sky, well tonight I caught one." I don't know what Christian Lindskog was referring to when he penned those beautiful lyrics but that's what I think about after having time with God at the ocean. I've experienced some of my deepest revelations about myself at the beach, I've had some of my most important mental breakthroughs at the beach. I've written some of my deepest and most heartfelt work at the beach. When I came back from TN in 2011 after the icky John situation and just being so emotionally wrought, I got into Maine at about midnight and hit the beautiful Pine Point Beach at about 1, still and hour away from home, and I HAD to stop there. I sat on the beach and cried, and listened and just was. Most of you who read this know what I had been through with John, and know how much it affected me, but that time at the beach by myself was so important in my time of struggle. No one was around, it was like I had a private audience with God to cry out and express my brokenness and receive His sweet calming balm on my heart. It wasn't like a vision or anything like that, I'm just painting a picture of how it felt in my heart. It's going to be so hard to be in a place so far from the ocean but I truly believe I am following God's calling in this move so I also believe He will provide me with an alternative if one is needed.
Now... I don't remember where I was going with this, if i was even going somewhere. Apparently I can choose not to because... this is MY blog, bwahahaha. Here's Blindside's "Shekina"... Enjoy :-) Yes, part of it is in Swedish because they are from Sweden (no, the official language of Sweden is not Yodeling...)
Gooooodnight my little love bugs! (awwwkkkkwwwaaarrrddd)
~Jennanana
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