Washed Ashore

Washed ashore

Carried away, be carried away, the opposite of “don’t get carried away”

I have called you back from the deep.

Feel the bubbles all around, for it is not turbulence, it is the bubbles of celebration. It is the wine that sparkles. It keeps you afloat.

Pulled to the shore. You see the hand but it does not grab you.

You feel something on your back, soft but solid, shallow but calming. What you have not felt before. It is shallow, but supports that which is deep, extends to the deep.

Washed ashore, you breathe your last. But then awake my soul, say “awake my soul”, and open your eyes.

See the rope just beyond your reach. Attached is a huge net. Now flattened, now exposed to all. Exhausted, spent!

John 21:10-13 Jesus said to them, Bring some of the fish which you have just caught. So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net to land, full of large fish, 153 of them; and [though] there were so many of them, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, Come [and] have breakfast. But none of the disciples ventured or dared to ask Him, Who are You? because they [well] knew that it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so also [with] the fish.

But then birds all around. Diving in, they grab the fish, small and large and then plop, plop, plop! Yes plop, plop, plop! You know what I am saying, need I say more!

The fish is not consumed, only their tail is broken by the beak, so there is no way to swim away!

Nothing I have put aside for you has got away!

From the dregs I bring forth the best. See the devastation all around, the dregs of all that once was.

Psalms 119:81-83 My soul languishes and grows faint for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word. My eyes fail, watching for [the fulfillment of] Your promise. I say, When will You comfort me? For I have become like a bottle [a wineskin blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs], yet do I not forget Your statutes.

But don’t wash your hands of it, be over joyed, bring forth your dregs with my fullness, for I have saved my best for your last!!!

Psalms 40:2 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

Bring forth the containers of celebration, prepare not for embarrassment but for the great reception.

John 2:6-10 Now there were six waterpots of stone standing there, as the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing) demanded, holding twenty to thirty gallons apiece. Jesus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water. So they filled them up to the brim. Then He said to them, Draw some out now and take it to the manager of the feast [to the one presiding, the superintendent of the banquet]. So they took him some. And when the manager tasted the water just now turned into wine, not knowing where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—he called the bridegroom And said to him, Everyone else serves his best wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then he serves that which is not so good; but you have kept back the good wine until now!

Oh they shall taste and see that the Lord is good!

My overflow pours out, fills the cracks, fills that which broken, restores that which is broken!

Present your broken “dregs” and prepare for fullness!