Ocean

Growing up on the East coast, my family and I spent many summers by the Atlantic Ocean. As parents, we have taken our family to other, prettier, warmer oceans and seas. Living in Ohio, where the closest ocean is 14 hours by car, Lake Erie, only 4 hours away, gives the same effect of a vast expanse of water that ends the horizon. That view is the best part. The flat straight line that demarcates sea and sky brings peace in it's elemental state. The book of Genesis says it like this in chapter 1: And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water. "So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day." The water God created can be so beautiful one day, yet so brutal the next. It is home to both colorful fish and hungry sharks, spectacular coral and stinging jellyfish. To live by the ocean, one must accept both parts of it's magnificence...the beauty and the brutal.

In accepting this, one can speak to God, learn his ways, and be guided to peace.