Hello ,
A beach near Perranporth, Cornwall (in Great Britain) is unlike any other stretch of coast in the world. Not for its breakers or sand, but for what washes up in the surf: Tens of thousands of toy Lego bricks.
Back in 1997, a shipping container filled with millions of Lego pieces went under the waves off the coast. As a result, 62 containers onboard the ship went overboard, and one of those containers had nearly 4.8 million pieces of Lego bound for New York.
No-one knows exactly what happened next, or even what was in the other 61 containers, but Lego pieces started washing up in both the north and south coasts of Cornwall.
In a quirky twist, many of the Lego items were nautical-themed, so locals and tourists alike have found miniature cutlasses, flippers, spear guns, seagrass, and scuba gear as well as dragons.
A U.S. oceanographer named Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who studies ocean currents and has been studying the story of the Lego pieces on the coast of Cornwall, offered a simple lesson. He said,
The most profound lesson I've learned from the Lego story, is that things that go to the bottom of the sea don't always stay there ... They can be carried around the world, seemingly randomly, but subject to the planet's currents and tides. The incident is a perfect example of how even when inside a steel container, sunken items don't stay sunken.
Many of us have attempted to bury our past sins and mistakes with pretending that they never happened, not talking about them, or just merely hoping that they never surface.
The very best way to deal with it, is to let God have it once and for all...and to reconcile the fact that there are some things that you cannot "un-do" no matter how much you would wish to.
God is faithful to deal with those past hurts in a way that brings healing and closure through His grace and mercy.
Have you given God your past mistakes, and allowed Him to be in control of everything? It's the only sure way of dealing with it permanently.
Have a great day and God bless!
Pastor Mike / The Open Word
