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The owner of the boat dropped anchor at night just off the beach at Alki. He didn’t know that the water is shallow and the tides this time of year are extreme. He awoke to find his boat sitting on a sand bar.
Today, I feel like that boat. I dropped anchor in waters that were a bit too shallow. I wasn’t paying attention. When I woke up this morning everything was slightly askew. I opened my eyes and looked out into the world and found myself…stranded. There was no particular reason for my stranded condition, nothing that I could point to.
So, you can imagine how fortunate I felt when on my usual early morning walk and I came upon the boat on the sand bar. The owner and I exchanged smiles and shrugs. “Nothing to be done until the tide comes back,” he called and smirked. “I think I’ll make some breakfast.”
Sage advice. Sometimes when you find yourself stranded on a sand bar, real or metaphoric, there is nothing to be done but enjoy the place where you are stranded. The tide will come back, real and metaphoric, make breakfast and soon you’ll be on our way.
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A few weeks ago I was standing on a real sandbar in the middle of the sound at Topsail Island. While waiting for my brother to come back in his boat to get me, I took a stroll to look for shells. I found this gorgeous conch shell and was about to put it in my pocket, when a hermit crab came peeking out. Your post reminded me of that moment. A sandbar may seem barren, but there is amazing life and beauty teeming within it. That time of being “beached” can reveal amazing things that are normally covered up by the ocean of life. We might want to enjoy it as you say, with the hope that someone – or something – will come back to pick us up and carry us forward!