FEAR:

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One day, I decided to try something new. I took my ten-year-old
son out on the St. Croix River on a Waverunner. A Waverunner is a
small boating vehicle resembling a motorcycle.

We donned life jackets and embarked on an experience that turned
out to be both exhilarating and frightening: exhilarating when I let
myself enjoy it; frightening when I thought too much about what I
was doing and all the terrible things that could happen.

Midway through our ride, my worst fear came true. We took a spill.
We were floundering in thirty feet of water. The Waverunner was
bobbing on the waves in front of me, like a motorized turtle on its
back.

“Don’t panic,” my son said calmly.

“What if we drown?” I objected.

“We can’t,” he said. “We have life jackets on. See! We’re floating.”

“The machine is upside down,” I said. “How are we going to turn it
over?”

“Just like the man said,” my son answered. “The arrow points this
way.”

With an easy gesture, we turned the machine right-side up.

“What if we can’t climb back on?” I asked.

“We can,” my son replied. “That’s what Waverunners were made
for: climbing on in the water.”

I relaxed and as we drove off, I wondered why I had become so
frightened. I thought maybe it’s because once I almost drowned
when I wasn’t wearing a life jacket.

But you didn’t drown then either, a small voice inside reassured me.
You survived.

Don’t panic.

Problems were made to be solved. Life was made to be lived.
Although sometimes we may be in over our heads – yes, we may
even go under for a few moments and gulp a few mouthfuls of water,
we won’t drown. We’re wearing – and always have been wearing – a
life jacket. That support jacket is called “God”.

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