You Think You Have Control

Think again

Life is like the ocean; we, the surfers; the surfboards, our lives.

Sometimes it’s calm on the water and we ride the gentle surf. Other times there are waves. I’d venture to say that most times there are waves. But these are the waves of life, the everyday problems we must address in order to complete something, and move to the next item on our do-list. There are also times when the waves are turbulent, unrelenting, violent. Sometimes the waves are so hard and so high we’re knocked off our boards. We get up and climb back on the board to try again. Sometimes we balance for a while and are able to navigate the particular daunting wave and we make it through. But other times there are too many waves coming for us over and over again, hitting our faces and we find ourselves overwhelmed, gasping for air, and hanging onto the surfboard. We have little strength left, as we try not to drown and so we stay there, cold and wet, waiting for the brutal waves to pass, just holding on.

During trying…