My dear friend Mica has invited me to read this book called Soul Surfer. I finally was able to find some time to read it yesterday. I started it in the afternoon and was finished with the book by the evening. What can I say I enjoyed it. I'm sure most of you heard of the 13 year old surfer girl in Kauai who got her whole arm eaten by a shark. Well her story impresses me. I just think it is amazing that such a young girl has so much love & faith in God not only before the attack but AFTER. I can't but help and think of the scripture in John chapter 9 verses 2&3 when the disciples ask the Lord about the man that was born blind. "saying, Master who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" the Lord's response strikes me "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents:but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." As I read her story it was quite clear that God used Bethany Hamilton to manifest himself. Her devotion to spreading the love of the Lord and wanting to be a missionary is very tender to me. It's a miracle that she lived to tell her story. I think God preserved her life to share her experience in hopes to bring more people to worship him. I'll be honest after reading that book I started to get scared of the ocean again. It's so weird! I'm here in Utah and overcome with fear of sharks. I'm no where near the water and I had nightmares of sharks. I have a few fears in my life and one of them are sharks. I have a hard time going in the water with out being worried that I'm going to be attacked by a shark. I admire all my friends that have no fear and just go! Yah Ashley I'm talking about you. I will never forget the time we snorkeled from bikini beach to the point. I probably peed in the water like 5 times. At different points of that adventure it was about 30-50 feet deep. You swam all the way to the bottom of the ocean floor to retrieve my roxy red watch. I'll be honest I didn't love it that much to swim for it, but I loved you for it. I just kept thinking you were so darn brave! There are many stories that I feared my life while swimming in the water. How do you guys do it? How do you swim with no fear? Does it ever cross your mind at all? Or am I just crazy? Seriously I want to know. That invitation is extended to all you all. Anyhow I just think Bethany is full of a lot of faith to even return to the water after a shark attack. I wish I can live my care free days when I was younger and didn't worry about stuff like that. My Pop's would take my sister and I beach hopping and we would go body surfing pretty far out. I didn't care at the time I was having to much fun. It's weird there are certain people I can swim a little further out with and feel at peace, knowing with confidence that I will be okay and that's my mommy and daddy. Oh yes and Chanelle. With my parents I feel that they will protect me with Chanelle I just feel one with the earth and everything is in perfect harmony. Weird but true. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I really need to overcome this fear. Especially if I want to build my home there someday.
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you just sat down and read a book. i need to do that sometime! they are filming the movie about her and that book here right now. they are all over the island.
and sharks...there is no such thing. we will go play when you guys get back and get you over your fears!
Nita,
Are you sure that your fear of sharks isn't because you watched "Jaws" as a child? That movie has seriously scarred many people for life!
Now i want to read this book.
I also fear sharks my friend... last time I was snorkling in Florida I saw a Baracuda and started screaming in the water, I came up and saw a fin a distance away, and started screaming again (thankfully it was just a dolphin!) But i definitely have those fears... even of the drain in the pool, yup... you never know when a shark will come up that thing! :) I'm glad you enjoyed the book as much as I did!
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