The beach where Rick taught them to body surf and jump high in the waves. The beach where they learned to love the sand and the surf as did their dad.
So many memories crash over me like the relentless waves I am watching this late afternoon. The ebb and flow of this world and our lives in it.
Even in the midst of this most wrong thing, being together here today somehow feels right. I watch my children and grandchildren at the waters edge and I continue to pray for softness to surround them. For the edges of this pain to soften and lessen a little. For the grit of grief to refine us smooth like the shells my granddaughter places in my hand.
We've been tossed in the tempest of our great loss, but we are standing. We are upright in these unknown and unwanted waters and we will continue on. Together. Holding each other tightly and keeping our eyes on that line of horizon which reminds us of how very big is our God. Even in this sharpest of pain God cannot and will not be diminished. He loves us and he longs for us to see life again.
We see Rick everywhere and we miss him terribly today on this day we would wish to celebrate him. But we look out and up to our Heavenly Father who continues to carry us. And always will.
"I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." ~ Isaiah 46:4
The beach where he carried them, cradled them, played with them and sun-screened them up from tip to toe.
He was always the first out to the beach and the last to come in. He'd bring enough chairs, towels, snacks and drinks to care for an army of children. He loved to set it all up and watch his family enjoy the fruits of his vacation labor. He never complained.
We've been tossed in the tempest of our great loss, but we are standing. We are upright in these unknown and unwanted waters and we will continue on. Together. Holding each other tightly and keeping our eyes on that line of horizon which reminds us of how very big is our God. Even in this sharpest of pain God cannot and will not be diminished. He loves us and he longs for us to see life again.
We see Rick everywhere and we miss him terribly today on this day we would wish to celebrate him. But we look out and up to our Heavenly Father who continues to carry us. And always will.
"I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." ~ Isaiah 46:4
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