Coming out of the Fog

Today at church the pastor gave an illustration about a women who was trying to swim across the ocean, she swam and swam for 15 hours in a fog covered ocean, until her body was so tired that she just did not think she could go on. The boat beside her, her mother kept encouraging her and telling her to go just a little further. She finally had to say she needed to get back in the boat because she could not see past the fog and just was too tried. A couple minutes passed and the boat came through the fog and she realized that right in front of them was land. She was later interviewed and said that had she known that she was so close to shore, so close to finishing the race she would have found the strength to go on.

I really felt inspired by this story, there are days as I'm sure we all have that you feel like you cant go on, that its just to hard and your too weak to make it to the end. I have been feeling like that alot lately, but the more I press on and also put faith in God the more I believe that I'm at the edge of that fog patch and that at any minute I'm gonna break through and see the shore and have made it to the end of this particular journey at this time in my life. So I don't give up and I have hope that even though there are days (and believe me there are days) that I cant see the shore and I don't know how I'm gonna get through my fog, that I'm almost to the shore and I just have to trust and go a little further.

The other thing that was said today that really hit home for me was that in the bible it talks about going through the valley (being trials and troubles) no where does it say that we will stay in the valley, but rather that we will walk through it. So I'm walking through it and I'm praying that Ill be a better person on the other side. I think that's why life sometimes sends us a curve ball, so that when we get through we can be stronger and maybe help someone else. Anyway not to sound all know it all (cause I'm so don't know anything most days) but I just wanted to share with my readers that my heart is healing, its slow. There are ups and downs, moments of triumph and of sadness, I know that there is a shore line waiting for me at the end of this patch of fog in my life.