our blessed smallness

I've been to the beach a lot of ways and places, almost all somewhere in the Caribbean...more gorgeous beaches than most people. 

It's been our happy place (and for most years, our only getaway option) for so long that we have MISSED it these months....being small, being sandy, forgetting schedules, pausing, remembering, breathing, refocusing.

With Matt and the girls starting school and a lot of crazy next week, we are heading to the beach, this time south, tomorrow.  

I know it won't be the same, but it will remind me that He is.

We have traveled this day

to the bounding sea, O Lord, 

to the far edge of the habitable land,

as to the utter end of our own measure

and ability and strength,

to find here reminders of your limitless

presence extended immeasurably beyond us.

In this place may we recall our blessed smallness.