Beautiful New England

This week our entire family is enjoying the Maine coastline.  I’m in love with the ocean and am so thankful that we live close enough for frequent visits. It’s calming, refreshing and so wholesome for the kids. Plus, we love Maine blueberry pie and fried clams. Who doesn’t. lol

And there are so many reminders of God and His powerful promises to us near the sea:

(I took these pics on a morning coffee run. The fog was so thick and gorgeous, it was hard to tell where the ocean ended and the sky started.)

He will again have compassion on us;
    he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19)

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost part of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. (Psalm 139:9,10)

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake and I am still with you. (Psalm 139:17,18)

Have you ever read this sweet poem to your kids?

If Once You Have Slept On An Island

By Rachel Field

If once you have slept on an island
You’ll never be quite the same;
You may look as you looked the day before
And go by the same old name,

You may bustle about in street and shop
You may sit at home and sew,
But you’ll see blue water and wheeling gulls
Wherever your feet may go.

You may chat with the neighbors of this and that
And close to your fire keep,
But you’ll hear ship whistle and lighthouse bell
And tides beat through your sleep.

Oh! you won’t know why and you can’t say how
Such a change upon you came,
But once you have slept on an island,
You’ll never be quite the same.

Rachel Field puts it beautifully, doesn’t she?