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i spent labor day weekend with friends and friends of one of said friends in the outer banks of the tar heel state and it was superb.  i got my ph.d. in “falling asleep as i lay on the sand and tanned (and even burned a wee bit)”.  i think that sunday was the most restful sabbath i’ve had in a while.  i slept in, read God’s word, prayed, read the art of listening prayer (i’m still on day 3 or 4), and journaled.  when everyone else had returned to the house we were renting, i headed to the beach to continue journaling and praying and reading.  then i just rested and napped and tanned.  everyone else came back to the beach for awhile; the boys went boogieboarding and the girls made turtles out of the sand (and gave them seaweed as hair).
 
 
at some point as i looked out to the ocean, i remembered the image/vision a friend had shared with me during one of our tuesday night prayer meetings back in the spring.  i flipped through my journal trying to remember exactly when it happened only to find that i didn’t write it in my journal but posted it privately on my other blog.  i couldn’t remember exactly what she said when she initially shared it, but all i could remember was that it involved me sitting on the shore.
 
 after the crew/posse/group returned to the house, i lingered longer on the beach.  i walked along the shoreline, trying to remember what it was that my friend said.  i snapped some pictures, trying my best to apply the principles of basic photography i learned in high school.
 
after dinner, i had a chance to sit a computer and browse my past entries on my blog and found what i was looking for (italics and underline added, and i’ve redacted names):
wednesday, april 23, 2008, 1:22 a.m.

from tuesday night prayer

i’m really
glad i decided to go to prayer meeting after ulc.  i’m afraid i’ve
received much more than i gave; and though ’tis more blessed to give
than receive, i feel vice versa.

i asked people to pray that i would hear God’s voice, to go deeper in prayer.

y prayed about new v. old wineskin (new wineskin for new wine).
t saw a gps, God is going to make the way clear to me, for intimacy with Him
k saw me in a forest, and the way i’m able to navigate is because i hear His voice
l prayed so powerfully for me, but what i remember most (because it
seemed to echo patricia kim’s prayer from months ago) is that she
prayed against cluttered thoughts, i also now remember that she opened
her prayer with praying that i would just open the doors that are
before me, and not just ponder them and over think them, but to [walk through them?]
d shared from matthew – ask and you will receive, seek and you will find

j shared this image of me sitting on a beach, a deserted island,
alone, sitting by the water.  as the waves ebb and flow, the times the
tide recedes, the sand seems dry – likewise i might feel that God is
distant.  but she pointed out that the waves do return, and ultimately
to look and see that there’s more to the water than the waves – just as
the ocean is expansive, God is everywhere.
 
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

– habakkuk 2:14.

to be continued…