{A Beach Fairytale}

Once upon a time, there was a little girl.

She grew up on the shore of Lake Michigan.

She loved her home like Heidi loved the mountains.

The water and the sand were a part of her.

But the girl grew into a woman and the woman left home to pursue her dreams.

She was gone for 12 long years.

She accomplished many things, but the greatest of these was that she learned to walk silently with the Lord her God and decipher His holy whisper.

The girl became a whisper-seeker and the Lord whispered to her . . . He would give her the desires of her heart. 

So the Lord made a path and He led the girl.  She called him "Abba" (father) because she knew him personally and loved Him with all her heart.  He called her His.

It was a perfect and all-consuming love.

The Lord blessed the girl with her marvelous husband and, in time, their darling babe. 

The Lord took the girl's hand and whispered, "follow me, beloved, out onto the water, where I walk as if on glass:  see where your faith can lead you."

It was a long journey.  There were times when the girl grew faint.  But her hope was in the Lord and He renewed her strength.

He knew her heart and her desires, and she followed him out onto the water . . .

He led her across the water and safely to the shore . . . at home on her beach once again.



And He called her blessed and loved.

"See all that I have done for you," He whispered.



The girl walked hand and hand with her marvelous husband and her darling babe, out onto the sand.  The Lord her God was before her and behind her, around her and within her.

"Hallelujah," breathed the girl.

"Hallelujah."

At last she was home.