🌊 Endless Water, Little Land

Introduction
The Caribbean has always been a teacher — of rhythm, resilience, and relationship.
We live surrounded by water. Endless water, and so little land. Yet we often live as though we were somewhere else — trying to imitate the solidity of continents, building walls and habits meant for places not our own.
But we are not that.
We are a people of water — fluid, adaptable, ever-changing.

Reflection
Our beaches shift daily. The sand that was once here is carried there. Nothing is constant.
Nothing is nailed down. Everything is in motion.
And yet, within that motion, we crave permanence. We search for certainty.
We long for structures that will not move — even as life itself keeps whispering:

Let go. Flow again.
Water keeps calling us back to truth.

There was a time in Barbados when hurricanes flattened homes and people became what were called storm carpenters — ordinary men and women who picked up hammers and rebuilt from the rubble.
They had never built before, but they answered the call.

That is who we are.

Resilient. Re-builders. Creators out of chaos.

The lesson of our islands is simple yet profound:
life will shift; the tides will turn; and what matters most is not the permanence of what we build, but our willingness to rise again — to rebuild with grace and gratitude.

A Moment to Reflect
💧 Where in your life are you holding too tightly to what was meant to flow?
💧 When have you rebuilt after a personal storm, and what did it reveal about your strength?
💧 What might it mean for you to live like water — flexible, reflective, open to change?

Affirmation
“I flow with life’s tides.
I am not afraid of change.
I trust the rhythm of the waters that carried my ancestors —
and I let them carry me too.”

Closing Thought

We are people of the water — shaped by tides, strengthened by storms,
and reborn through flow. 🌿