EP 08 · My Lord, Holy
Sunrise Over the Island, Hawaii — A Sailboat Pressing On
Early morning on a Hawaiian beach: an island across the water, first light on the waves, and one sailboat already out there, sailing on.
First Light Over the Island
In Hawaii, we were up early, standing on the sand before the day had properly begun. Across the water the island lay dark under a cap of cloud, while the sky above it softened from grey to pink to gold. Small waves rolled in and folded quietly onto the beach. A few boats sat on the water — and one of them was a sailboat, already out on the open sea.
I kept watching that sailboat. Out there in the wind and the waves, it looked as if it had come through the whole night — a long night of wind and washing seas — and here it was at daybreak, still pressing on toward the morning sun. Whatever the night had been, it had not stopped. It was sailing into the light.
That is a picture worth carrying into a day. Nights come to all of us. But morning comes too, and mercy is made new with it. Like that sailboat, we get to keep going — into the light.
"It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." — Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV)EP 07 · Nakalele Point, Maui — Where the Sea Shoots SkywardSister series · Faith Through TravelThe Next Generation Sings — Sunday worship filmed from the back row of our church: young voices, one song, every Sunday night.
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- EP 01Niagara Falls — The Water Never StopsStanding in the mist of the falls, feeling very small — and very kept.
- EP 02Hong Kong — The Ferry Still Crosses at 3amAwake and anxious at 3am, watching the harbour — and remembering who never sleeps.
- EP 03Highland Lakes Camp — Mercies Before BreakfastSunrise over the camp, before anyone had done a single thing to earn it.
- EP 04Cabo San Lucas — New Every MorningA sunrise over the Pacific in Cabo — and mercies that had arrived before I did.
- EP 05The Night Harbour — Peace Across the WaterA whole bay of lights, and still the night was quiet — because His peace does not depend on the place.
- EP 06Maui — My Son Sat Still in the WavesI asked him what he was thinking, out there in the surf. “Nothing,” he said — just the quiet, and thanks.
- EP 07Nakalele Point, Maui — Where the Sea Shoots SkywardA lava shelf, a restless sea, and a hole in the rock that turns every big wave into a fountain.
- EP 08Sunrise Over the Island, Hawaii — A Sailboat Pressing OnEarly morning on a Hawaiian beach: an island across the water, first light on the waves, and one sailboat already out there, sailing on.