Monday, August 7, 2023

Perfect Timing

The urge to be enveloped by the ocean depths was unusually strong in the late afternoon. As if I simply had to be in the water. It was a peaceful Sunday morning and for the first time in weeks the construction noise next door was on hiatus. I'd been writing on the lanai and watching the ocean, the surging fairly consistent and not the glassy stillness I'd been jumping into as of late. And yet I couldn't shake the longing to jump in. I walked down and stood on the edge of the rock face and watched, waiting for a lull, a settling. But the timing was too close together so I choose to wait longer on the shore, a little cove of sand with a shallow pool of salt water. Wearing my swim shirt I laid on my stomach thinking about my last dream.


My right shoulder became suddenly hot and I turned over to splash cool water on it. My legs now barely under water on the sand and I noticed something sparkle, then another and another. Star shapes were moving across the sand, perfect mini north stars. I looked above me half expecting to see someone on the rocks with faceted crystals or holding a pair of thick glasses. But it was only blue sky, the sun and a few puffy clouds. The sun was doing this but what was it shining through? Then I noticed a tiny piece of sea foam floating on the water above the star. It was shining through the tiny bubbles. Just then, a larger wave came rolling over the rocks, filling the tiny beach with agitated sea water. When the sand settled, even more stars covered the sand, slowly moving across my legs and feet. As I looked closer, each star enclosed a rainbow and each one unique in size. "Perfect timing" I thought. 

And all the specific timing of things that had to happen in that moment to create this beautifully unique experience for me. A bright sunny day, the placement of the sun in the sky, the timing of the tide, the agitation of the wave, the angle of the light...me turning to cool my hot shoulder. Earlier there was no water in this area, the tide was lower. Minutes later the stars were gone, the sun had moved. Rainbows remind me of promises awaiting fulfillment. Dreams and heart desires. There were so many today, so many coming to reassure me, projecting on my physical body and dancing all around me. "You're only waiting on the timing, when it all falls into alignment...be still and notice the awe."


Psalm 65:7-8 

Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples, So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs 

You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

Genesis 22:17 Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore...

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

This Beautiful Storm

Storms bring about the most beautiful skies and seas. The highs and the lows.
 The sea glass waters fold over into pure white as they pummel the coastline. The sun and moon pull them, the invisible wind pushes them. And in the stillness they are still. 

Big Island Hawaii coastline lava rock

Teal clouds and ocean Hawaii


Hawaii ocean crashing

The vigorous shaking of the sea and all that floats within it creates it's own sudsy edge.


Pink clouds

                   The pink clouds unveiled amongst the darkest with small strokes of hope. 

pink, gray and white clouds in Hawaii


circle of pink white and dark clouds



humpback whale shaped cloud

The sky watches the humpback whales below and mimics their breaching. 

Turquoise wave curl

The ocean water isn't blue and yet blue is what our eyes see. Or rather all the colors we don't see. When the sun shines down all the colors of the rainbow unto the ocean, all the colors are absorbed except blue and green, giving our eyes turquoise. The depth of the ocean as well as  what the foundation is gives us the shade of blue green. Isn't that marvelous! 

Turquoise ocean wave Hawaii



Hawaii ocean sunset with clouds

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Light in the Darkness: Monochrome After the Storm

Lightning cracked open the sky and the heavens opened upon 

our little Big Island. 

Monochrome after the storm... January 2023

Monochrome Ocean Clouds Dramatic

Burning the light at both ends. 

Monochrome Clouds high contrast

Boom!


Contrasting fringe.


Capriole. 

White water on lava rocks

Coalesce.


Resound. 


Extrovert/Introvert


Abounding. 

Black and white palm Fran

Unfurled.


Unwavering.

plumeria on a black lava rock

Face-plant.

a solitary white plumeria

Luminary.


Trickled.


Fuchsia refused to be captured in monochrome.











Saturday, October 15, 2022

Highlighted by the Sun

Blonde highlights by the sun


Born in darkness and stubborn in nature, its growth is exposed to the light. 

Obstinate it chooses the instantaneous and artificial in the mockery of its inheritance. The temporary perfection that can never be enough, becoming all consuming. A continuous submergence into darkness, masking the genuine and blocking the light. Yet it never stops reaching, longing to be restored.

 

One day it refuses the imperious serpentine in the howling wasteland and returns to whom it was meant to be, who it was all along. And the longer it spends with the sun, the more it longs to be like it. A little every day and some more than others, it soon dances in the wind, twirling in golden rays. The ends, the wiser of the strands, now assimilating the incandescence. And after decades it learns to be more transparent, wisdom birthing and radiating the light from within. No longer hiding in the shadows but celebrating the return home. 

 

Proverbs 16:31

The silver-haired head is a crown of splendor and glory;

It is found in the way of righteousness.


Proverbs 20:29

The glory of young men is their physical strength; and the honor of aged men is their gray head (representing wisdom and experience).

 

John 15:20

So he got up and started back to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.