It is Loy Krathong today. The resort has laid out cut banana stems, banana leaves and a variety of flowers for us to make our krathongs.

As I watched my little krathong float away, I had some thoughts:
When I released it in the shallows, the returning waves knocked it over. I had to go into deeper, less turbulent waters where the returning waves pushed it out to sea instead of hindering it.

There’s a lesson in there somewhere.