I experienced/am experiencing the biggest wave of my life currently. As many know I moved to Texas two months ago, thousands of miles away from the place where I lived for 17 years. I never have really been away from my family because when I went to college it was only 30 min away, I was always in arms reach. I moved knowing about one person in Texas, no family, no real support system. Scariest decision of my life. I would be lying if I said this move was easy, it’s been anything but. I’m at square one, new job, trying to find friends, trying to adjust to a new life, and dealing with the grief of being away from my family. I’m pretty sure I cried every night for the first month I lived here. God thought it would be funny to play a sick joke on me so within my first month of moving I got my first flat tire, I chipped my two front teeth, I got hospitalized because they thought I had Appendicitis, I cracked my windshield and had to get a new one, I got down to .10 cents in my account, and a friendship that meant the world to me ended. I WAS AT ROCK BOTTOM. I WAS RIDING THE BIGGEST WAVE OF MY LIFE.
I love the idea of a wave, you don’t know when or where it starts but you know it’ll always end. Some waves are big and they crash into the shore while others are subtle and only a ripple, ending soon after it is born. LIFE IS ONE GIANT WAVE. We don’t always know when a hard time is going to come but we do know (we don’t in the moment) but we eventually realize that hard times always have an ending. YOU HAVE TO RIDE OUT YOUR WAVE. Waves end at the beach, the beach is refined by each wave that ultimately hits its shores. WE ARE REFINED BY EVERY WAVE THAT ENTERS OUR LIFE, THOSE WAVES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHO WE ARE TODAY. We can’t fight the hard times because we don’t have control over it; they are going to come so you have two options 1) get stuck in the undertow or 2) ride the damn wave.
Here is something else to think about, so we get the wave is a hard time, the beach is what is being refined by that wave, now how do we ride the wave? Easy, ride it like every other person does, get on your surfboard. Our surfboard, the thing that keeps us afloat is God, he is our foundation that keeps us from being dragged by the wave. We may get knocked off the board at times, distance ourselves from him but he is always hanging on through the lanyard. We will never be separated from him. HE IS ALWAYS IN ARMS REACH INCASE THE WAVE OF LIFE KNOCKS US OFF. I got knocked off the wave when I moved; I was caught in the undertow not realizing the whole time the lanyard was connected to me, GOD WAS STILL HOLDING ON EVEN THOUGH I WASN’T. Once I realized he was still there although I got knocked off I was able to drag my tired soul back onto the board to make it to shore. I’m still not at shore, I’m at the peak of the wave but IM ON THE DAMN BOARD AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS. You don’t have to be standing on the board but as long as you’re on it, you aren’t going to lose. YOU WILL MAKE IT. My beach will be refined by this wave and I’m excited for that moment. I’m excited to look back and realize why things happened/ happening the way they are.
Get on your board. You won’t stop waves from coming into your life but you have the power to decide if you’re going to get on the board or not. RIDE YOUR WAVE!