Oh The Wonder

  At some point in life I think that all will experience a sickness of soul. Sick with anxiety, sick with exhaustion, sick with not enough, sick with despair, sick with abandonment, sick with bitterness, 

Our souls need rest, and nurture and the quiet communion nature offers.

  I have often read novels where in another era it was common for physicians to send ailing souls to the sea to rest. They were to be there months at a time. On this trip I feel like I experienced the healing those patients were sent to receive. I was so weary on so many levels. I needed help. We got up and left at about three thirty in the morning for our trip. We left a many days of rain valley and as the sun rose (the sun rose!) we pulled in to a spot by the beach. We burst out of the RV and headed to the Ocean. The tide was out, tiny crabs were scuttling everywhere. The sky was so so blue and clear and expansive. The air was clean and salty and refreshing and I could feel the healing start to settle in immediately. I felt my spirit open where before it had been curled up and shivering. I felt my soul look around with a different brightness. 

That was day one.

There were many more days of beauty and restoration. 

 This is what I want to share with you. Our trip was nothing like we planned. We had sick kids. I didn't get much sleep. I was still just as physically weary. However when your soul is refreshed, when love is lavished in the forms that feed you, when you can let go of some of the burdens and your anxiety and guilt is lifted for a time your body can't help but respond in some deep way. It is something that you actually need. I believe that the world today is not one that people can thrive in due to the onslought that cell phones and social media brings, but if you can get to the ocean and be there for days at a time or hours at a time, if you can slow your mind down, think through some hard things, and let them go out with the tide... If you can cry and walk and dance and scream, watch eagles fight it out, gather some sea glass and marvel at creation.. It will change you.

xo