Today I had a very spiritual experience. Well..its more like yesterday cause its 2 in the morning but whatever. I went to the beach with my awesome friends and we had a ball of a time! But I figured out something wonderful about us as humans through the nature that God uses so cleverly to teach us with.
When swimming there are a few things you can do about the waves. You can, one, watch the wave come and dive into it so you don't have to wait for it to hit you. But then you still are in the wave and you still feel the full power of the wave from the current below. Or you could, two, try to jump before the wave comes and control the situation but that usually ends in you falling too soon before the wave hits and then you get water up your nose and it burns and you cry inside and gag a little. Then there is the other way, third, you could relax and let the wave carry you and its only like a little bump and you giggle cause you feel like you are floating.
If you are really daring, like Jodi's little sister Kayla is, you can lay back and float on top of all the waves and just relax. Having total trust that you will not go under unless a terribly large wave comes and destroys you!
Try as I may I could not find it in me to just have faith and float for more than two seconds. As soon as I felt a wave coming I tried to touch my feet to the ground but the wave had me too high and I just ended up having water in my nose and blaming those around me for not giving me good advice on how to float. I only got more annoyed because all those around me were finding ways to float and I just couldn't do it! Jonathan was floating using a board and when I tried to do that I couldn't trust the board to hold me and I went under. Then I tried floating the way Kayla was doing it and I still had to try and control the situation by wading my arms and kicking my legs a little while Kayla was totally still. Try as I may I just couldn't do it.
So, in my defeat, I just swam along allowing the waves to carry me and surely enough I was happy but I was getting pretty far out to the deep end. But Kayla did too, but she was floating so she was okay. Anyway I just found all of it interesting after I had a while to think about what had went down. It was a wonderful day and I met the wonderful and talented and funny Todd and Heather. I hope that I can hang out with them in heaven once I learn to just float and not worry about whether I will fall if I don't help God out.
Okay its late, I am just now getting back into a little bit of a sleeping pattern! Yay for sleep!!
Song : Somedays by Regina Spector
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