Significant Days

Today was a significant day for me. And its hard to even try and explain why or what we did or what God said. We drove to the beach, we wandered until we found what seemed like the bleakest spot, and then we prayed some poignant and honest prayers.

We weren’t deliberately searching for the most desolate place. I’d have preferred a nice sunny spot with benches and daffodils, but instead we found ourselves on a shingle bank littered with junk and seaweed. Amongst the broken shells I found the above, a beautiful fragment of china. That cheered my soul.

Today reminded me of the beauty of community and the wonderful loving friends I have around me.

Today reminded me of God’s ability to heal and restore even the most desolate places.

Today reminded me that I want to tell as many people about that as possible.

We stood on a grassy mound and I read the following poem:

At the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful, fortress’d house,
From the clasp of the knitted locks–from the keep of the well-closed
doors,
Let you be released.

Let you glide noiselessly forth;
With the key of softness unlock the locks–with a whisper
Set ope the doors, O soul!