vision in the surf

just returned from a quickie at the head - a short trip to hilton head. it was awesome. sunday night through this morning. i felt a bit out of touch though as i had no internet service in our condo so i couldn't post a blog, read any blogs, or keep up any stuff we are purchasing off ebay. i found a good deal on a fat frog lighting console for our move to the gym next month. since i was out of touch i spent a lot of time reading. finshed gordon mackenzie's "orbiting the giant hairball" a few days ago and then read bill hybels "too busy not to pray". i have gotten too dang busy lately to give God some quality time. not good. when i did find some time for God i struggled to coehesively converse with Him. i was all over the place and pretty unfocused. hybels book was right on the money. great book!
a wierd thing happened tuesday while boogie boardin' in the surf. a wave caught me - yep there were some decent waves at the head - and took my sunglasses when i wasn't looking. my wife helped me feel around for them and i found a pair of sunglasses - just not mine. now how do you figure that just as i lose mine, i find another pair? anyway, didn't find mine so i went back to my chair and read the rest of the day not thinking much more about them. as we left the beach later, walking up the boardwalk... there.... on the railing was a pair of sunglasses sitting by themselves... and they were mine! i couldn't believe it as i had resigned myself to the fact that they were gone for good. but there they were. i felt that it was a God thing. i don't know who found them and set them there or how i even saw them sitting there as we were leaving. sort of like my faith. just when i think i have lost sight of God, there He is and he tells me... you of so little faith, I am with you always. all you have to do is look.