Mercies

But when the morning's sun brings new day, I know all God's mercies will be renewed.

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord.

And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee, I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant.

It was after midnight in Torremolinos in Spain, as I walked out of my hotel and walked down the steep incline towards the beach. On the way, I saw an intriguing green metal gate in front of a home, above which on marble, it said "Jardín de las Mercedes" or "Garden of the Mercies" of residence number 28. At the beach, it was dark and calm. There were "palapas" or palm-leaf shelters along the beach. The only other person that I saw that night looked like a Mexican, promenading.

The lack of sea ice left phytoplankton to the mercies of an increasingly wind-whipped surface, particularly along the northern Peninsula.