The Chief Cornerstone
Well, when I first saw all the red bricks washed ashore at Fort Phoenix, I thought, what a disaster. My first thought was that hundreds of red bricks do not belong on the shoreline of a beach. It is just not natural…
But a few days later as I walked along the beach, something extraordinary happened, in a very ordinary way.
It was like Jesus Christ appeared before my eyes and said to me, “The ocean is always washing up something, that is what oceans do”
Then He said, “Why not make a walkway.”
He was telling me to put the bricks to good use. Be the alchemist and transform what looks like a disaster into something beautiful and useful. So, here I am writing a letter to the editor, wondering if she might publish this letter to help let other people know that there are more bricks on the shoreline than I alone can make use of to make a walkway. I thought that other people might want some of those red bricks too. Even the broken-up bricks can be used as part of a mosaic walkway. Or you can make them part of a filler for a garden wall. The sky is the limit…
Made me think of the movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it, He will come.”
I was grateful to have this transformative encounter, which provided me with an opportunity to be creative, while cleaning up the shoreline at our beautiful Fort Phoenix beach. And most of all, my heart was gladdened that I could leave a little more room for His footprints in the sand.
Michelle Costen, Fairhaven
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