THE OCEAN

The vastness, the beauty, the movement, cast a spell upon our human senses, a spiritual awareness.  The wind making huge waves that are powerful as well as exciting, making me feel alive! There also can be times of quiet meditation that can absorb our thoughts and carry me far away, or just calm my soil.  An amazing place in summer when the beach is covered in busy little ones making castles and digging holes and taking pails to be refilled with water.  There is joy!  There is the warmth of the sun above and a promise of the ebb and flow of all life.  There  are times of discouragement and there are times of renewal.

 

Phillip Keller writes with great passion about the ocean in several books.  He lived on a hill in a driftwood cottage, cooked on a wood fired stove, with no electricity or phones,
They were young and adjusted to these primitive conditions.

The ocean fed them and provided wood for their stove and its beauty was a glory beyond words.  He writes: The rise and fall of every tide upon the beach; the mysterious magnetic attraction -of the moon, the sun, the planets of the solar system, and even remote stars- is a powerful reminder that we are a part of a enormously complex, interdependent universe.

A magnificent mind  of  the creator in the wonder and awe I feel when I walk along the beach.

After church dad and I drove right to the forest for our walk.  I dropped my cane in the rushing water of the stream.  Dad managed to climb over the rocks, with one near fall to rescue it for me.  It is hard to hold a camera and a cane, one had to go.

 

Then we rushed home to wait to hear when Sandra would come by but she phoned to say a nasty headache would keep her at home for the day.

 

We decided to go up to the hospital, one reason was to have a visit with Jim, and then a quick hello to Vera and Howard.  Jim was very pleased to see us.  He has pneumonia and a bad heart etc.  He knew that he was in the place where he needed care and attention.  He was very talkative for him and his daughter also had been in so that was good.

 

Today dad has his test for his echocardliogram.   With all his tests and his regular checking of his blood pressure the doctor will know what his treatment should be.