What is the meaning of life? We are here only long enough to leave a brief footprint in the sand. When that print is washed away by the ocean of love, we are then the entire ocean.

When our loved ones pass over before we do, there is a sense of deep loss. But how can love be lost? How can grains of sand that are destined to be washed away be anything but love?

Live for the ocean and not for the human footprints of frailty and dissolution. Live for the sky’s light and the night’s bejeweled darkness.

Live for yourself alone, for you comprise the cosmos. If you doubt this, you doubt love. So take your own hand and when you do, you will be holding hands with God, with love itself.

Vicki Woodyard
Author, Bigger Than The Sky