FEAR:

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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