Hope in a mussel shell....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A shell is more than
a discarded home; it tells
of oceans and skies.

On a day of deep thinking, negotiating my way through inner shadows of sorrow in the search for hope and light, I stopped to look at the sky reflected in the sea water inside a mussel shell.

A shell has the capacity to hold in itself the same sand of a million beaches, and the same water of a world's ocean's.

Likewise our human minds and hearts have capax dei, the capacity for God.

Our capacity is that of the shell; God's fullness is that of the ocean.

And from that fullness of purposive love and creative wisdom, come our deepest and furthest reaching hopes.