Paradise Coast

Gracelyn woke up stretching her arms over her head, cracking an eye to let the light shine in…she sighed looking out the window to the gulf. It was another breathtakingly beautiful day. It was amazing how God could put so many colors in the sky, the clouds and the ocean. She kicked back her covers and arose going to the enclosed balcony which, was more like a small atrium that housed a telescope and was filled with orchids, tropical greenery, a small fountain and corner seating area. This is where she did her daily devotion in the mornings and star gazed at night. She breathed in the sweetness of the world that the Lord had fashioned and started her morning prayer, when she had finished, she picked up her Bible and started reading in Jeremiah. Lost in her thoughts her eye traveled along the beach until it came to two figures, they appeared to be fighting. What are they doing she wondered, as she saw the bigger one wrench away and the smaller one start to run, she quickly reached to her