Naturally Symbolic

Its awesome when you get a day off of everything and decide to go to the beach. Just spend the whole day there. It has these amazing qualities that just make you think. About nothing. About something. It reminds you constantly about the happiest moments of your life. It makes you reflect on things that went wrong but ended up being exactly what you needed.

The beach has so many components that I stand completely in awe of. Its amazing to watch the sun, whether rising or setting. Its always there, always faithful. It continues to rise and set everyday without end. It gives you the sense that everything is ok with the world.

Even the water. The constant tide pushing and pulling little objects that have been washed up a million times over. Its sound is soothing, and its cool temperature contrasts perfectly with the sun’s rays. It talks incessantly, hardly pausing for a breath, and impatient to say what it needs to.

Its so cool to find a really smooth rock on the beach. As insignificant as it is, you pick it up because of its smoothness. And what has caused it? The continual beating of the water and sand against it, until it becomes the end product that you pick up because it seems special.

The beach just has a healing effect. I don’t know what it is, but you always feel clean after you leave. It drains you of strength in a good way and drains you of negative emotions that you feel. Its an escape. A place to just hang out and talk to God.

I think God made the beach the way He did because of the way it reminds us of Him. His apparent faithfulness. His unending mercy, grace and love. His peace. Everything at the beach is a natural symbol that points upward to the Maker of it all. Its just naturally symbolic.

And I think we should be too.
Acts 4:13 

~ by aimeeacoustic3 on April 23, 2008.