Glowing Dolphins

Current Location - Falmouth, England

Welp, after a long month and a half of difficult circumstances, we are now docked in Falmouth after a great 2 and a half day sail from Liverpool, sailing with 4 sails up the whole way.

A year and a half ago, God simply stated - "I want you to dream".  So the next day, I got up, went to Costa Coffee and wrote out a list of my "dreams", a list of things that I wanted to do or see.  (Read more about that HERE).  Over the last year and a half, I have been able to cross off a number of those dreams.

Yet another dream was just ticked off the list.

It was 11:45PM and I was preparing myself for my next 4 hour watch from midnight to 4:00AM.  I had my peppermint licorice tea in hand as I was leaning against the rail on the main deck of the ship just enjoying the fresh air when Kristin spots something jumping and swimming through the water on the starboard side.

They were dolphins.

They were glowing.

Now the day before, we had seen our fair share of dolphins in the water playing around.  As we were

going, we could just see a pod of them racing towards us just to play and show off.  It was an amazing sight to see and it didn't ever get old.  I loved standing on the foredeck just watching them.

So these glowing dolphins.  It was so dark all around and all you could see was the entire shape of a dolphin being lit up by what seemed like green lights and you could see the stream from where they were swimming as they jumped around, surfing in our wake.  It was one of the most amazing things I've seen.  And they kept coming back all throughout my watch in the middle of the night swimming with us.

I don't know all the scientific reasons as to how that happens, be it plankton or phosphorescence or something else.  I don't need to know.  I just know it was beautiful and it was a great way to start my watch...at midnight.

The first thing I thought of when I saw these glowing dolphins as we were sailing was that this exact thing was one of those dreams on my list and it is happening right now.  It was a dream I had forgotten and not thought was every going to come true.  Especially not when I was making that list in a coffee shop in Liverpool.

God knows and remembers our dreams.

Every little part of them.

Even ones about seeing glowing dolphins.