The Current

We finally had our first beach day on 2021 on Sunday.  As we walked up from the parking lot, we saw the red flag flying.  Our kids are pretty familiar with the beach, but we still had to chat with them about where to swim, how to spot rip currents, and what to do should they find themselves caught in a rip current. As we were explaining this, I realized how much this goes against your natural instincts.  Our first instinct is to fight. I don’t care who you are, you aren’t going to over power the ocean. It’s stronger. It’s more powerful. It’s going to do what it wants regardless of how hard you try to fight. So, how do you deal with a rip current? You don’t fight it. You go with it. You allow it to drag you along because it will eventually stop. Then you swim along the shoreline until you can begin to swim back into shore. Sometimes, that’s how we have to approach tough times in our life. Hard times come. Circumstances and situations that you don’t like or feel like you deserve happen. When they do, you have two choices. You can fight them, spending all of your energy trying to change them, or you can go with them, working your way through it, taking lessons and learning along the way. I hope this message encourages you today. I hope that you make the choice to face whatever situations come your way head on with the attitude that you’re going to use the situation to your advantage. Let’s say good bye to the excuses and the blaming and the self pity. Let’s make the choice daily to rise up, to adjust our perspective if needed, and to grow through the process. Enjoy!