This morning I woke up to a fog bank covering our neck of the woods in Long Beach. I checked the cameras on surfline to find the same in Huntington Beach. Later in the morning the fog burned off and I made it to the south side of the pier just in time. The sun was shining. The waves were small but playful enough for some saltwater therapy, a.k.a., surfing. There was barely a whisper of breeze, and this part of the Pacific Ocean was like sheet glass with clouds of whitewater rolling in. What amazed me was how the water was remarkably clear. It was a beautiful turquoise color and I could see straight to the bottom of the ocean floor, even to the ridges in the sand. Perfect clarity. Then, just about when the time on the parking meter was expiring, another bank of fog rolled in (pictured) and I got out of the water. My surfing session was perfectly timed with the sunshine. Kind providence was providing kindly.
What can we say about 2020 that has not been said already? For many, the complexity of life and the issues at hand seem as challenging as ever. Above all, I am praying to see the grace and power and mercy and goodness and righteousness and truth of the Living God with ever increasing clarity. I see these things most vividly reading the Scripture and looking upon Christ and reading the doctrine He prompted His disciples to record. I see the hints of these things out in the midst of the amazing things His hand has made. I see these things drawing close to people praising Him together. Someday, I will see Him face to face. Lord, help me to see you clearly and walk in your ways.
“Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
I Corinthians 13:8-13
Salt Is Good 