“I Asked the Sea and the Deeps…”

This is more or less what I was trying to think while sitting beside a restless sea on a cloudy but pleasant August afternoon…

“ Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. Yea also heaven and earth, and all that therein is, behold on every side they bid me love Thee; nor cease to say so unto all, that