The So, I was just at the beach and I walked home fast because God gave us a message.

He said there's more love than there is water in the ocean.

And you're still only standing at the shore, building sand castles, collecting shells,

writing your name in the sand with your big toe.

And you've been at this shore for years hearing the waves,

filling them lap, feeling just a little bit of this love.

But you're afraid to be submerged,

to be engulfed, to be erased, like your name, like those sandcassals.

How do I leave the shore? You ask. And you listen for your own answer, but I'll give you the one I heard. I heard a feeling that became these words.

There is no shore. There's nothing but the deep look around.

Where you see the shore, where you see the show,

the sorrow, the joy is my love,

only my love is there, reminding you that it's not so bad, is it?

And then the body lets go.

It lets that breath go it was holding while thinking.

It lets that thing go, that problem go, it lets go of everything.

But my hand, that's pulling you in and down, deeper, into the fullness where you find surprisingly you can actually

breathe easier. My love is giving you life every breath. You grow taller. Your eyes shine brighter, your

smile grows wider. Their silence goes deeper. Can't you hear me?

I couldn't be closer.

That sound.

My father's flute.

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