From the beginning of recorded history, we have approached the sea with a mixture of joy and fear, feeling some sort of connection to it. Just as the sea has high tides and low tides, our spirits occasionally soar to new heights and dive to deeper depths, and in between we live out our lives as an ebb tide.

Delia Halverson takes readers for a stroll along the beach with conversational meditations, lines from the psalms, and small personal prayers that connect nature to day-to-day life.