The Beach of Happy Things

Beach season has started once again as the beach becomes a more increasingly popular place to be. As the suns rays hot up on the eastern shores of Australia so the dire need for sunscreen and aeroguard are in demand. Wow, that was poetic, wasn't it?!

Well anyway....

Last night i went to the beach with 3 of my very good friends. During the summer this is a routine thing that some of us from the Earlwood Salvos like to engage in. If you've never been to the beach at night, you really MUST do it!! It's the most serene, most beautiful thing you could ever experience, especially when you get real close to the water like i did last night. God's presence overflows and you can almost hear his whispers and feel him breathing....if you think this is poetic and romantic and wishy washy - IT IS!!! It's the best candle lit dinner for two God ever threw!!! Hey (Dina) that rhymes!!!

I always feel completely surrounded by God when i'm at the beach at night and it amplifies his mysteriousness in a way that just gives me the greatest goosebumps and surge of adrenalin....can you imagine a sea of violent waves and a pitch black nightsky sprinkled with twinkling stars AND THEN Jesus returning in all his fullest glory on a cloud.....WOAHHHHH.....well i can. When i'm at the beach at night my imagination just goes absolutely flippin' WILD!!!!

I've said this in many a blog before but my friends are just the greatest, i love them all to death!!! They are the kookiest, craziest people on this planet earth and i LOVE them for it!!! When you're trying to be kissed by another girl (Elyse, don't EVER try and kiss me again, you're freakin' me out man?!) it's just not a nice thing and as much as kicking sand in people's faces is not a very nice, Christian thing to do (MATTHEW?!), the delight i received from watching Matt chasing Elyse and then Dina along the beach trying to kick sand in their faces was so awesome. They were laughing their heads off while trying to pick their feet out of the sand at an insane pace, covering their faces and tripping over along the way it was the best sign of happiness (well sort of in a crazy way) i've ever seen, i coulda stayed watching them forever, just to be continually in a 'happy place' (ha! that phrase always makes me think of Happy Gilmore!). It was a nice change from karaoke as well.

Then we left the beach of happy things and went home, it was late and i was tired so it didn't enthrall me greatly, but the others seemed to continue to laugh a lot and have good times. Some people get the most amusement out of the smallest things! Things like flicking round jubey things off windscreens with the wipers while driving along and throwing cha cha's out the window at specific items/targets such as wheely bins. Matt you're truly an oddball, I saw the reaction you had when you hit the bin - SCORE!!!!! You know what they say, small things amuse small minds...but however tired i seemed to be, i woke up a little when i wasn't the target of matt's gear changing for once, it's funny when it's other people!!!

If Matt is shotgun (in the front seat), apart from putting your wipers and your hazards on, he has this habit of subtley putting your car into the neutral position and leaving it until you figure out by the loud revving sound of your engine and the fact that your car doesn't go anywhere, what he's done. Once you rev the engine hard enough and remain stationary, he is GREATLY amused by your lack of observance of what he's done. It's the most irratating thing when you're the driver but when you're witnessing it - ok, i give it to him - it's funny. Small things amuse small minds.

And finally it is amusing to see someone driving at a speed of 40 km's an hour, avoiding the speed cameras when the speed is usually 70km's an hour and getting completely frustrated that other drivers are overtaking her, cursing them with words of 'i hope you get a ticket!'.

putt..putt..putt..putt..

It was a good night out and Elyse, it was a good drive home too. Thanks for the inspiration. And little beach, i will see you again, sometime in the future, stay cool!

Tink xoxo