SHOES: WILD DIVA | JEANS: TARGET | TOP: FOREVER 21 (old; similar linked below!) | SUNGLASSES: RAYBAN
SHOES: WILD DIVA | JEANS: TARGET | TOP: FOREVER 21 (old; similar linked below) | SUNGLASSES: RAYBAN
This last weekend my friends and I decided to book a plane ticket and get away from Norman, OK… So we went to Los Angeles, California! Let me just say, it was so nice to get away from these gray gloomy days we have been having here in Oklahoma and go play in some sunshine. We started the day on Saturday by going to the Manhattan Pier. My favorite part was watching all the surfers, since it was Saturday and so nice out, there were so many of them! We were only there for a little bit but the time we did spend on the pier it was hard not to take your eyes off of them. As I watched these surfers try to get up on the wave and almost be up, a wave would come and then BAM!, it would take them out.
This made me think of my life. Most of the time if we are lucky in life we can “get up” the first time we try at something BUT in most cases we fall and have to try again. In a strange way, watching these surfers encouraged me. They are people who continually fall but they continually try again and get up because they want to reach their goal, SURF! There are countless times I have a dream or goal in life but it is hard and I don’t succeed the first time. It would be way easier to change the goal, lower the bar, or just give up and “swim back to shore”. But I know that the Lord has called me higher than that and He calls you higher too.
This morning I was reading in Psalms and as I was reading Psalm 138, verse 8 stood out to me and just tugged on my heart.
“The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever- do not abandon the works of your hands.”
I can not tell you how comforting that was for me to read.. That even when I feel discouraged and waves keep knocking me down one after another, after another; the Lord has got me and is my constant life jacket. He is still working on me and growing me to be the person He has created me to be to fulfill the purpose on my life.
If you are like me, and feel like the waves of life are just crashing into you every time you try and get up… DON’T QUIT. He has something so special for you and has a purpose for you. Just keep seeking Him and swimming out into the next wave.
It may be scary and you may fail again but you never know when it will the THE wave He has for you to stand up on.
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