The Ocean

My Classmates in Rome will attest that I am a fish. (More like a whale, actually) I love the water, and so being here on the Vineyard is a great privilege for me. Yesterday after the morning Masses were over I pack a few essential and went to the beach. It was colder than I expected but I braved the elements anyhow.

Looking out at the natural beauty of this Island, and of the Ocean that surrounds it, I wonder how people can deny God the Glory dues his name?

What attracts me most to water is it is it is essential to life on Earth and yet probably the most powerful (destructive) natural force on Earth. The way it can be so calm and peaceful and yet so quickly become turbulent, makes you respect your own limitedness. Man is not the master of the bodies of water on Earth the way he claims dominion over the Earth, and that in my opinion is a good reality check for us. When you go swimming you are enveloped in it, you are completely in its power. In a way water is like the hand of God, each of us are in it and completely enveloped by it. Sustained by God, we are always dependant upon him, of course God doesn't change the way that water does, one moment calm and the next murderous.

I think modern man has so insulated himself from reality with his technology that he forgets that each second of his existence is a gift from God. I had a reaffirmation of this the other day when as I was returning from a cook-out on the mainland my brakes went out. Driving in this precarious situation, I new that I was in his hands. Thankfully he got me to Woods Hole safely.
What an affirmationthat God is out there watching out for us (and me in particular), as if the fact that I haven't killed myself with the way I drive wasn't proof enough.