Day 113 – Nighttime Ocean

Tonight when I went to pick up Elijah from practice, I asked him if he minded if we went to the beach for a bit for my intention. The weather was so nice and I haven’t been to the beach at night in quite a while. Right when we were pulling up we noticed the moon was large and extremely orange. It was so beautiful.

Elijah thought it might be a blood moon. I looked it up online and it isn’t calling for one tonight but it looked exactly like that. We could see all kinds of detail on the moon – dark spots, various shades of orange and red as well as a bright halo. It was reflecting off the water as well -which further magnified its brilliance. We each started snapping pictures. But none of the pictures we took came close to capturing what our bare eyes were seeing. (Pictures below do it NO justice!) So I told him- whatever… let’s just sit here and enjoy it for a bit. It was high tide and the waves were swishing against the shore.  The air was moist, cool and refreshing.

We sat there and just talked a bit. Elijah’s friend just lost her mother to cancer and he is pretty shaken up about it. He knew her mom pretty well from the time he spent at her house and he said she was a super nice lady. The wake is later this week and he is trying to mentally prepare for what comes with that. We spoke a bit about the stages of grief and I encouraged him to allow himself to feel and speak about his feelings whenever he needed to. I reminded him that where there is life, there is death and it is sad and so very unfortunate but the pain his friend is going through must be almost unbearable and that we must be here for her first and foremost.

That is such a true lesson in life- grieving and dealing with our pain but making sure we are there for each other to support and uplift one another in our times of need. For this intention today, I am thankful for the beautiful setting that my son and I were able to take solace in while speaking of such a sad and sensitive subject. #missingHGALtodayandalways