Swept Away

The tide draws me in...
and out to sea again...

Life is full of change.
Most of it comes unexpected, unprepared for, and even when it is anticipated, the shock of it can numb you.
Like the horizon, you're drawn out toward it, you long and wait for it to come and take you, but then when it does you try to scramble back on dry land.

Why?

Because the dry land is familiar.
The sea is full of creatures. But what's worse is that the sea is driven by tides. We are pulled along. We control nothing but how we interact with it.

We can either repel it or embrace it.

We will be tossed, we will be turned, over and over and over. But we will come out alive, we will come out whole. There is nothing in the ocean that will consume us. Nothing can touch us for the good or the bad, except HaShem.

In the end the tide will calm. The ocean will bring us to a new beach. We will resettle on different dry land, which will soon become familiar. Life will resume.

When we look back on the ocean we will see the growth that brought us to were stand.

The tide draws me in...
and out to sea again...