I don’t know about you, but this is about perfect. A beautiful white wooden church with sand on the floor, blue ocean right outside its windows, sea breezes blowing through…the best of God’s air conditioning. Let’s go…OK? 🙂 Slainte, Lisa
The view just a few steps away…
I love boats, and water, and boats, and water. Hmmm…I see a recurrent theme there. 🙂 Just put me on a boat, big or small and let me move along on some water, big or small, and I’m a pretty happy girl. Sun beating down on your face, sea spray blowing on your face, the gentle or not so gentle loll of the wake against the boat…ahh. One of my very favorite and first memories of boating was with my uncle and cousin when I was young. They had a motor boat on the Potomac and would take our family out in the summer for a picnic on the shore. After dropping off the food and older relatives on the beach, my cousin would take us back out on the water, rev up the motor, and we would fly. He’d hit boat wakes on purpose, and we’d scream happily. Great memories. 🙂 Here are some of our favorite pictures we’ve taken of boats. And if you are on the water today, enjoy every minute! Slainte, Lisa
Boats near the port of Miami
Tender in Half Moon Cay
Cruise ship in the Bahamas
Boats in a row, Killarney, Ireland
The waves crash and fill the senses like the voice of God
The sound washes to shore peacefully like the whisper of a breeze
Seagulls dive and call like clarions on the wind
Salt air blows and clears your mind like a good night’s sleep
Soft sand surrounds your feet like the sweetest down
Peace descends on your heart….you are there, you are loved, all is well.
Slainte, Lisa
“May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.” – author unknown
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”
– e.e. Cummings
“My soul is full of longing
For the secret of the sea,
And the heart of the great ocean
Sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. ” – Psalm 139: 17-18
Rejoice in the wonder and joy of it all. Blessings, Lisa
Walking outside this morning after the long rain last night, I caught a sudden whiff of the ocean, of salty air, of fish. Yet we are hours away from the sea. One moment, one smell on the damp air, and I was there at the ocean on a rainy morning.
Hearing “Summer of ’69” by Bryan Adams instantly takes me back to my senior year of high school, when I was in my very first band with some high school mates. We practiced for weeks, had one gig at a birthday party, and then I had to get my wisdom teeth out and go to college.
Waking up in the dark for any reason instantly puts me back to my childhood vacations, when Dad would pick us up out of bed at 2 or 3 in the morning and carry us to the car where we could continue sleeping (or not :)) in the back of the station wagon till morning.
I am a forward looking person usually; I love planning and looking ahead to the adventures still in store. But these little instantaneous transports are amazing, and I look forward to the times in my future when some smell or sound or sight will take me back. Slainte, Lisa
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