Like this:

The color of the sea at dawn; this is truly God’s own custom color for the sea for no man could possibly reproduce it. I think if someone could or did, I would have seen it in one of those huge boxes of crayons.

I have been coming to this retreat house by the sea for at least four or five years now and I don’t ever remember seeing the sea in this particular early dawn color; or perhaps I have never noticed it before now. I will make an attempt to describe it but I am afraid my words or even a picture will not do it justice. The color is barely a color at all. It is the faintest of blues with a shimmery, milky translucence.  It is almost as if God took the clearest of water and dropped in it the tiniest drop of blue. At this early hour when the sky is also at its palest, with hints of red on the horizon, the sea seems to blend with the sky.

This is the most peaceful, calming color I have ever seen, but at the same time I also find it quite exhilarating. The sea at dawn is also when I find myself the most humbled. Standing at the water’s edge, trying to soak in as much of this beautiful color as I possibly can, I am in awe of God as Creator. Here I am His lowly creature and He has given me this gift of His amazing artistry!

If I thought for one moment that someone in a paint store could reproduce this color, I would drag him to the sea at dawn and say: “Please~ make that!” I would then proceed to paint every wall in mt home with it.

But maybe this is why it is God’s color; He has given it to me as a gift here and now in this very special place. It probably wouldn’t look the same anywhere else. Although, dear Lord, in that place You have gone to prepare for me in Your Father’s house, if that place has heavenly walls I wouldn’t mind seeing this color splashed on them.

Advertisement