He stood by the shoreline. The waters gently dancing between his toes. The smooth sand underneath him pulling him closer to the ocean. The sea breeze brushed against his skin as he looked deeper into the vastness of the blue. He looked deep towards the horizon where the waters met the heavens. The pale blue of the water merging with the rich blue of the sky. In that moment, he saw the heavens become one with the earth.
How he thought about that moment. That moment when God reached down and touched the humans on Earth. How he dreamt that there more moments like that for him in his life. For everything in his life so far was a distance away. Everything was still within out of reach. Yet, at night, he could see the things he desired manifested in his life. He wondered how is that the oceans at this moment have found a way to be one with the heavens?
A deep longing rested in his heart. A deep longing of a desire he could not put into words. He only knew that which he felt. This feeling of longing felt like a child longing for a hug from his mother. The feeling of longing that felt like missing the one woman to who you gave your heart wholeheartedly. It was a deep longing that he felt could be resolved if he found a way to get to the heavens. He longed for God to touch him. However, he last felt the love of God when he was in his mother’s womb.
This is a feeling he carried with him throughout his everyday existence. So on this day, he stood by the shoreline, looking deep into the blue that married the oceans below and the heavens above. He sought God’s beauty in the marriage of the two worlds that seemed to unite. No boat, no bird, no cloud, nothing disturbed the tranquility of the horizon. It was a reminder to him that all is one. That within two there is still one. His longing was caused to be one with another that he could not describe. The missing element, whatever it was, whoever it was, probably longed for him as well.
Then suddenly, the sky broke into a beautiful array of red, yellow, and orange. Drunk by the vastness of the ocean, the sun gingerly rose from the horizon. It swerved and twisted with the waves of the ocean. As the sun rose, the ocean submerged itself in the red, yellow, and orange that painted the sky. The sun, full of light and life, continued to rise to announce the beginning of the new day.
He felt the warmth of the sun on his skin. A warmth that broke through to touch his heart. His longing soothed by the warmth of the sun. Within that moment, God reminded him that all is one and He never left him. A smile cracked his sombre face. Within that moment, He remembered God’s Love.
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