i remember this moment i was i was on the beach in hawaii we were traveling preaching from
we did orlando to hawaii then hawaii to guam then guam to indonesia with children i don't know
why we thought that was a good idea we're like let's take four kids on a missions trip yeah so
i dressed all of my boys in matching neon bathing suits so i could count one two three four one two
three four at the beach and i was standing on the shore and i heard the holy spirit remind me that i
loved being out of control that i actually loved swimming in dangerous waves that i loved
feeling like i could recreate minded yes because i had become completely bound to fear
completely bound to fear so i'm counting my kids counting my kids and i remember him saying
dive in and swim out there and i thought no i i don't like it anymore i don't like the ocean
anymore i don't like getting my hair wet i don't like doing all this stuff i don't like worrying
about a bathing suit and he's like i made you to actually live in the danger and the deep
and you were created for that and so i looked at john and i said watch all the boys
i'm going out there and i went out we're on the oahu beach with surfers here are like cussing
at me because you're not really supposed to be swimming in the surfing channels but there was
like this moment where every stroke i took with my arms i felt like something was breaking off
me and i had swam competitively for 12 years and it was the most wild amazing moment and it
was like god had me do something to illustrate this dynamic and then the funny part happened
then i come back to the beach i'm so excited i go yes and my bathing suit top goes flying
off it was snapped in the front i die flat down my husband said all he saw was a flash of white
and but i threw a towel on me and we went back to the bathing suit store and i'm like i think
i think you need you owe me something but that is just that is yeah that's just that's just
the story of my life you know this moment and then my bathing suit goes flying out
yeah it was hooked in the front anyway um but yet i love it when god gives us a reminder because i
was a fearless child and then at five years of age lost an eye to cancer and a spirit of fear
came in so strong that god had to say no no that's not who you are you learned how to swim
because they wouldn't let you go off the high dive because i used to jump off the 10 foot
high dive with an inner tube and they finally said i'm sorry your daughter cannot swim and so
god will take us in situations and remind us of who we are and take away this
self-consciousness so that we have an awareness of who he created us to be now has anybody else
had an experience of that minus the bathing suit top becoming unhinged on a public beach
that's the best story i have had that where you feel the holy spirit quicken you with uh
you were made for this yes um i think um in my life there's been seasons that i have
i've kind of tried to orient my life for comfort and then i realized i actually wasn't made for
comfort i was made for risk i was made to be comforted by jesus but i wasn't made for
comfort and and he i tend to be like you a little on the on the wild side so i love lisa and i love
mother so all three of us are motorcycle mamas so brittany's like legit two wheelers
but you know i love motorcycles it's not it's fun that's great and if you grew up baptist you're
always jonesing for something that allows you to wear leather pants so you know there's a lot to it
but yeah he's done things like that where there's just this quickening and it's like
my spirit remembers you know i was made for this i was he's my net i can walk on any tightrope if
the holy spirit says this is for you because he's always my net i think that's what i've loved about
getting older yeah and there's something about once you lose your metabolism and your tight skin
you're just you're like okay what else is next you're kind of all in but i do love it when he
quickens us when he reminds us of what we're made for and it's usually very different than what the
world prescribes you know and i love that you talked about motorcycle i um my mother is the
one that told me never ride a motorcycle my my uncle lost his leg to a motorcycle and so what
i heard when she said never ride a motorcycle i heard buy a motorcycle that's what i heard i
buy a motorcycle because i just hate it when other people put their fears on me and so i was like
i'm not i'm not gonna let you and then of course there was the factor that i only had
vision one eye that was another reason not to buy a motorcycle and but i just felt like
i don't like having limits that are fear motivated put on my life
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