Sandcastles

I got this one from Mary DeTurris Poust, www.notstrictlyspiritual.com.  Sandcastles look very lovely on the outside, but they have no support underneath.  I cannot get away from this wonderful image as I prepare to spend a week at a North Carolina Beach for a family reunion.  Too often I am the sandcastle.  Mary suggests that silence and stillness in prayer is the basis of deep support which the waves of life will not wash away.  Come to think of it, hunters with their guns wait in silence and stillness in the blind for the flock of birds to come by.  The hunter may even pray for the birds to come.  The contemplative and the hunter are both waiting and praying.  Only one is waiting for God.  I hope that is me.