Seeing with new eyes

One of my strongest childhood memories

is playing in the high mounds of fine white sand

that seemed to be a permanent fixture in the yard.

I remember the delight of finding these little egg shaped hollow ovals in the sand,

little treasures from the ocean which we called raalhu bis

which literally translates into "waves' eggs."

I have always thought that they look like eggs that have been sucked empty

with the fangs of a snake-like creature;

which would (to me) explain the two little holes on each of them.

But that is just me and my not so good relationship with snakes.

~In reality, they are the dead shells of tiny urchins

the spines now lost

and the surface made smooth by the waves

which lift them from the bottom of the lagoon

and wash them onto the beach~

But it was only when Em pointed it out yesterday

that I realised how each of these little treasures
had the exact same pattern of a five point star on them
like nature's own version of a dot-to-dot shape to be joined up.
Pretty amazing, huh?
The same star pattern on each of them,
even on the tiny ones just barely four millimetres in diameter.

All I can say is,
Subhan'Allah (سبحان الله)

~Glorious is God~