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Chapter 2 Swimming Lessons
I have come to realize life is much like a swimming lesson. You start out not knowing exactly what to do, but knowing it is good for you to learn how to do it! And, more impor- tantly, God has given you some tools within you to swim with. You jump in the water, in the shallow end of course, and wade out slowly. You begin to get deeper, tread water, kick your arms and legs and begin to go deeper and then you take a deep breath and let your head go under. You know you can do it, but you are still afraid. The instructor gives you some helpful hints and it makes it easier if you listen. He says “don’t struggle, “listen to me”, “you will not drown”, “just tread water”.
The next day you go back, sometimes forgetting what you were taught the previous day, but you try again. Each day thereafter you learn some new things that can advance you to the next level. And you keep it Up...trial and error, until you feel you really have it. You give up the lessons for now as you have the basics.
Later, you decide you want to learn some fancier tricks, such as diving off the high dive, or somersaults, or even a backwards flip, so back you go to the instructor and the swim- ming lessons begin again, over and over.
Such is life! How remarkable God gave us the ability to go under, come back up, and go under again and again with full control over our bodies and our minds, as we swim thru our lives.
“My Broken Shell” is personal to me and written on our beach trip, 2013. It reminds me of the swimming lessons in my life.
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