the ocean and the shore

I was away for so long that I came home with writer's block, but Thursday I had a flood of creativity that started with this. I'm happy to say that I'm finally writing again. Slowly but surely, I think I will finish the novel I'm working on when I'm not writing this poetry. 

The Ocean and the Shore 

Some days I am the ocean,

and You are my shore. 

As waves crash against 

the burning sand and

go back again,

lost in their wandering,

lost in the vastness of the sea,

oh God,

so do I wander and lose myself,

in the hopelessness of 

searching and longing for things

I think I'll never have 

but then I remember the shore 

and just like the ocean,

I return again to fall on the shoreline,

back again to You, my Lord,

the One my soul longs for,

in Your arms do I find all that fulfills

my longing and searching. 

Other days I am a single grain of sand

taken from the shoreline I know so well

and thrown into the harsh and vast sea

swirling and drowning amongst the billions

but then Your hand reaches out into   

the middle of the ocean

and there You've found me,

this tiny speck of sand,

in the hand of the Creator of everything.

Though I feel lost in it all,

You spotted me out amongst the many. 

How amazing it is that though

I felt swallowed up in the sea

the One who shaped the earth 

with His own hands and painted

the stars in the night sky 

and gave the wind it's power

and holds the oceans in His hands--

that same God picked me out,

of all the people He could have chosen,

He chose me even with my wandering heart 

and He called me to be His own.