🌊Hallelujah Waves🏄
Surfing is a big part of my life.
I think about it a lot. I dream about surfing. I rejoice in surfing, and take great pleasure in its enjoyment. This is the story of one way in which I express that joy.
Credit Where Credit is Due
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It’s hard to be complacent or quiet about this sport.
When you’re in the lineup and people are catching good waves left and right, there is a lot of enthusiasm. After an especially good wave, it’s real common to hear the favored surfer hoot and holler with pleasure.
I long ago decided to start tailoring my responses to great waves in a way that gives credit where credit is due. When I come down off of a particularly good ride, you are likely to hear me shout "Hallelujah!"
Catching good waves, left and right...
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The word "Hallelujah" is Hebrew.
Rather than being translated, it is transliterated, i.e. simply re-written in English letters. It literally means, "Praise Jehovah", that is, "Praise the Lord".
After all, Jesus the Lord God, invented the ocean. He also conceived of, designed, and created me.
Believing as I do in the sovereignty of God — i.e. God is in charge, in complete and absolute control of everything —, I know that each and every wave I catch out there has been lovingly handcrafted by Jesus himself, expressly for my enjoyment.
"But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create" - Isaiah 65:18
Each wave is a gift, and the really good waves are exceptional gifts.
And so, I get excited and let fly with some heartfelt praise. Halleleujah!
Each wave is a gift...
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Sometimes, for variation,
I will sing the three-fold Amen taught me by one of my favorite songwriters, Mark Heard.
Mark Heard is, to me, the ideal combination of poet, musician, and theologian. His "Threefold Amen" is a contemporary alternative to the resounding "A-men" of Christian hymnody often voiced at the end of the singing of a prayerful song.
Mark's version (extremely short, please do play it?) goes like this:
Mark Heard's "Threefold Amen"
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A-amen, A-amen, Aaaa-aaaa-men, Oh, Yeah!
If you should ever be out surfing and hear someone singing, please paddle over to me and say "Hi."
Great wave? Oh, Yeah, indeed! Hallelujah!
I suspect and hope that my friend @inphiknit may be able to weigh in and offer additional insights into the meaning of "Hallelujah."
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Oh dear you really need help lol Paddling is about as far as I would get :)
Good morning, Karen! ;)
Good afternoon :)
Oh yessssss baby!!!
Look at my Hallelujah - shouted out loud being totally amazing by THE MOMENT 🌊🏄 hahaha
SWEET! Cool!
So, it's really nice to have someone taking pictures, eh? ;) Apparently a friend on the outside of the wave... Very, very cool! :)
Thanks for sharing, Marly!
Thank you :-)) Thas was actually my very best surfing day so far...
It happend at Jailbreaks (North Male Atoll, Maldives) last summer and the picture was taken from the captain of our 'dinghy' called Api. A very cool Maldivian guy. Here he is...
Now I would need a picture of the one who took the picture of the photographer... and so on, hahaha :-D
That's fantastic! Wow, I'd like to see that wave you were on from the front side...
Your captain was a great photographer.
Picture of the picture taker of the picture taker... Hmmm... in the software world, we call that "recursive picture taking." ;)
Cool! I tried surfing once. I went to the surf Mecca of America...Seabrook Beach, New Hampshire! I think the waves got all the way up to 3 ft that day- it was perfect conditions for surfing- there was a good break so I decided to shoot the curl! As a surfer, I was a washout...I dream about hockey!
I visited New Hampshire as a child, and later lived there for about four years. Beautiful country. Never have I ever been to the Seabrook Beach when the waves were that large! Must have been hurricane season? ;)
Thanks for stopping by and reading, Rich! :) I appreciate you!
I loved NH, we used to go to Hampton Beach as kids and stay the Summer, work at the restaurants or Casino. Appreciate you as well!
you probably like the Beach Boys, I do too, my favourite is, God Only Knows...fast cars and surfing, not so much lol
Beach Boys, GOOD!
Have you ever heard Papa Doo Run Run cover the Beach Boys? ;) Their California Project album, Song #14 is yours...
Fast cars, I can live without. I, however, desperately want to be able to fly everywhere I go...