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Leading and Loving It

Drowning

Drowning.  It freaks me out.  I know that sounds silly – of course it should right? But nothing is freakier than drowning scenes in movies. I hate them. Titanic, Casino Royale, even Charlie in Lost. Hollywood has burned images into my brain of drowning that I could certainly live without. I’ll never scuba dive!

Then it hit me one day – sometimes I feel like that. Desperately needing to come up for a breath, but having the inability to breathe in clean air. The churning water around me and not being able to get my face out of the water.  My lungs burning for air only to be filled with cold water. Of course that isn’t literally, but there have been seasons in our lives when I felt like I wasn’t able to rest and even catch my breath.  Have you been there?

Has time been so hard to come by that you have felt like you were drowning?

Holly Reply:
 April 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm

ALL THE TIME!!! But my personal analogy is of a speeding, runaway train that is going so fast that at any second it’s going to go crashing into brick wall.

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Lindsay Reply:
 April 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Drowning…can’t breathe. The perfect words for how I feel right now. As Lori can tell you (she has walked through it with me) I have just finished Nursing School and am studying to take the state Boards (NCLEX). I am freaking out. It would be so nice if I just had all the time in the world to study for this. I don’t. I take it Tuesday (in 6 days) and I get nothing done with my almost-one-year-old crawling and climbing everywhere. I love him so much and want to spend all the time I can with him, but in the back of my mind I am panicking to think that I take the biggest test of my life in just a few short days. I literally have to rely on God’s strength and peace just to get my anxiety down. I just want to pass. I just want to pass. I would appreciate all your prayers very very much. It’s Tuesday April 29th at 12:15pm central time. Thank you, Lori, for giving me a whole new family of women to lean on. What a gift. Love you.

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leadingandlovingit Reply:
 April 24th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Lindsay — You’ve got this. No problem! We believe 100% in you!

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Lisa Reply:
 April 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am

Lindsay, Just want you to know I am praying for you as you prepare for the State Boards. Please know I will be praying for you on Tuesday, too!

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