It is time for another prize!!!
Roger and I went to Disneyland last week and I finally got to go on Areiel’s Undersea Adventure. Loved it! And now, I still have Dory on the brain –Remember the motto, “Just keep swimming,” that had been a theme for many of you earlier this year?
Well, I want to know what things you have had to keep swimming for, those things that you kept pushing towards and why? We all need inspiration from time to time and while you inspire me as I read your “I kept swimming” story I am sure you will inspire other readers and may even inspire yourself to tackle the next hurdle, the next chore or that thing you have been putting off because you are unsure of yourself, fearful of conquering or just lacking the gusto to get up and starting moving towards the finish line!
I want you to tell me, in the comments, a time when you just kept swimming. A time when you were working towards something, a goal you have, a dream you want, and when something came up, you just kept swimming.
I will put all your names in a hat, pick one, and will send you one of my adorable, motivating, stuffed Dorys.
I am working on my “keep on swimming” when learning how to best deal with my daughter! I love her but she is a very opinionated little lady and I am forever working on my patience when dealing with her. I understand that she is very emotional and so I am blessed that the Lord is with me during this time! Liberty deserves my patience and mine and the Lord’s guidance. The Lord is forvever there beside me, saying “keep on swimming”!!!!! I love him for that!!!
I have been struggling with everything this past year. Medically, financially, family and of course my marriage. Everyday is a new struggle for me. I have Fibromyalgia along with a lot of other things but this one bothers me the most cause I am losing my memory with it. That hurts the most cause I have had to learn how to redo things so that I don’t forget my day to day stuff. Without my groups on here and my friends I would have probably already drowned.
When my mother was sick with cancer, we both kept swimming through her chemo treatments, hospital stays and her life on the recliner. We talked and talked those 2 years and 3 months. The last thing we said to each other was I love you. What a blessing. How was I going to keep on living without my mother? I kept swimming. Sometimes I falter, but God raises me up. I’ve kept swimming for 6 years without her with the help of God, my family, church and friends.
I’ve been in a very dry time over the last year. I went to a women’s conference, ROAR in the Valley, in Orefield, PA in mid September and got renewed! I recieved a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit and my writing is on fire once again. God has indeed shown me how to keep ‘Singing in the Rain” (this year’s ROAR theme) and I am better prepared for the storms that will come.
S-Shake off the condemnation – make much of the Lord and less of the enemy
T-Take cover in His Presense – Psalm 18 – no one can follow me in and slay me there.
O-Overcome fear – fear is a spirit and God has not given us a spirit of fear.
R-Recieve revelation – need a word from God when you are in the storm. The things you need to know, you will not recieve from your intellect.
M-Move forward in faith – throw what’s in your way to the other side.
I had to throw my writing, speaking, sculpting, church, worship (all that seemed stuck in my life) to the other side. Once I did that, I was able to move forward.
That was how I was able to keep swimming in the desert.
I’m swimming to keep my family afloat. We’re being bombarded by a lot of things right now that are trying to destroy my marriage and my family.
I kept swimming for 12 years to get my BA in Sociology. After high school, I thought it would be cool to purchase a new car on payments. Right before I signed the contract I heard the big “NO” but ignored it! I worked two jobs to pay for it. However, one of those jobs was always non-profit work (autistic kids or the American Red Cross). God always provided for my finances. A few times, I could barely make rent and a check would come in the mail (seriously). I would always take one class a semester. I am the first one in my immediate family to go to college and finish. After getting married, my husband was in full support of me finishing my degree. At the age of 32 I was a full time student and finished!! woooo—- woooo– woo—-
Now I am a 36 a mom of a 3 year old and twins on the way… Now getting over that next hurdle in preparing for their arrival and keeping myself sane. In addition, need to start the “Me Project” so I can keep swimming for myself:)
Becky