Today in the car I was listening to a Sanctus Real song and the singer was saying that he would fight the tide for someone (I don't know who he was talking about), that got me thinking, the tide is something very natural, it involves the moon and water, things like that, I thought of it a different way too...think of the tide as earthly stuff (money, fads, fame), and on the beach is a huge party that looks REALLY fun, and your invited! But you know that even though you cannot see it you know that Hawaii is out there somewhere (think of Hawaii as heaven), and you want to get there, but you have to fight the tide, and swim all by yourself to Hawaii, then comes along a boat, Jesus is in the boat, and offers a free ride to Hawaii in it, now it's your choice, you can get in the boat knowing it will not be an easy ride, or you can have the comfort of having you in control and you swim to Hawaii all by yourself. I got the Hawaii and boat idea from a book called The Christy Miller Collection.
Here's another thought, you are on a cruise boat to Hawaii (heaven, remember?) and you have a lot of bags with you from a whole bunch of things that happened in the past. you have a nice room in the cruise boat, but you can't get in the room because you are holding on to all your past junk, it reminds you of bad stuff, but you can't let it go, so for all of you who are holding on to past junk (including me), throw it overboard! I also got this from the book Christy Miller.
Robin Jones Gunn (author of The Christy Miller Collection), thank you so much for all your ideas! You have changed me SO much from
the books you write! Keep on the good work! ~ Kara
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