07/16/22 RE-POST: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

07/16/22 RE-POST: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

I WROTE THIS IN 2012. I am "sending" it again, with tears in my eyes and hope in my heart. I love you.

My bottle is so small,
The ocean is so vast,
We really do not know,
Which message is the last.

10/06/12 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE...

A message in a bottle is a note, placed in a sealed bottle and thrown overboard, in hope that someone will find the message. This is an internet message in a bottle.

Message...
I love you.
I miss you.
I want the best for you.
I want to hear from you.
Love,
Signed... (you know who I am).

Explanation
I was actually saying that the MESSAGE is from me, but I wear various hats. I am a husband, a father, a grandfather, (now a great-grandfather) an in-law, uncle, cousin, nephew, pastor, friend. So, the message was for someone who would call me by one of those titles.

The message is open, but the relationship is private. This virtual MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE was directed to someone I love, someone I miss, someone I want to hear from. They may or may not realize I am sending it to them, but that is the way it goes with messages in bottles. Sometimes they are discovered and sometimes they just drift in the currents of life or wash up on a deserted island.

My MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE is impersonal, in that it does not say anything specific, or identify a certain person. It is really very general.... except for the person who finds it washed up on their beach. Hopefully they will hear the depth of concern, and respond.

Maybe a "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE" is not a bad way to send out our love to people. You may say, "Why not just tell them?" Well, we do tell them, but for various reasons, they don't always get the message. Just like a message in a bottle, it is like a desperate, maybe final, attempt to reach someone.