Where Our Souls Reside

I just wanted to share something with you today. Today has two pretty special meanings to me and I am sure to a lot of us. Today is the day that The Lord sacrificed His life for us, so we can live eternally.

Today is also Earth Day, a day to celebrate this beautiful place that we call home that holds so much beauty and resources.

My dear friend Sandra from Frugal French Girl wrote this beautiful poem a couple years ago on her way back from a place where she and her hubby travel, a place that calls her home and her soul lives when she is not there, the Mayan Riveria and the Caribbean Ocean.

Photo: Frugal French Girl

I wrote this on our first trip back to Mexico in 2009. It's called "She beckons me home"

As I woke up this morning

In this beautiful place

I looked to my husband

And saw a smile on his face

A smile in his sleep

Means joy in his heart

I can't help but smile too

Feeling such love in my heart.

I quietly dressed

And grabbed the camera, eager to see

What beautiful things

She has to show me.

As I quietly leave our room by the sea

I can hear her soft voice

She is whispering to me

My feet hit warm sand

As I walk on Her shore

Everywhere I look

I see Her beauty and more

I watch the sun struggle

To peek through the clouds

The colors so rich & amazingly loud.

Never have I seen a more beautiful sight,

all painted for me, in colors so bright.

I sit here alone, in this moment in time

Knowing that all this is for me,

This moment is mine.

No one around to share this glorious sight

My soul feels so full

I know it is right.

As a sense of calm comes over me

I feel so content,

So whole and complete.

She gave me a gift,

She means it for me

She gave me a gift,

No one else will ever, ever see.

"She" is the Ocean, so humble, so strong

She beckons me closer:

"Why don't you come in?"

I suddenly realize this isn't a dream.

The beauty around me is so surreal;

that I cannot believe all that I feel

I slowly walk closer, my feet in the sand

Holding some of her amazing treasures tightly in my hand

As I get wet, I feel so alive

She surrounds me with love,

And I know, I've arrived.

If home is where the heart is,

Then this is my home

For nowhere else have I ever felt

So fulfilled & happy,

While completely alone.

I look forward to next time

We meet at Her shore,

When She'll fill me with calm

And replenish my soul.

Until next time...

I know that there is a place like this for me and I am sure that many of you have a same spot that "calls you home".

So what do Good Friday, Earth Day and Sandra's poem have in common?

To me it means that Jesus sacrificed His life for us to be forgiven of sin and to live eternally in paradise with Him. Earth day represents how we should care for the world that God gave us, He sent His only son for us, why should't we take care of the only Earth that we have that He gave us, our home? A home that inspires such beautiful poetry of places where our hearts and souls are drawn too, an Earth that provides us with so much beauty and inspirations.

So please, no matter what your celebrate today and this weekend, remember that we are share this planet and we can all do something, a small sacrifice maybe like recycling, reusing (which I know that a lot of you are amazing at!) and just being aware of our surroundings, to help preserve our wonderful home.

Hold it in our hands as He has held us in His.

HAPPY EARTH DAY

AND

HAPPY EASTER

Thank you Sandra for allowing me to share your beautiful poem!

Also please say hello to Sandra, she is crazy talented and she has a heart of pure gold