I Will BELIEVE Without Fear or Doubt!

I will BELIEVE without fear or doubt!


When I was a child, I took swimming lessons at a local river with other children my age..
Every year there was a two week course given by a local lifeguard.
My mother is deathly afraid of water, but she did not want her children to have the same fear.

I was not afraid of getting wet or being cold, but I did not trust the water to hold me up.
I was a sinker, not a swimmer.

One time as a very young child, my grandfather sneezed very loudly and scared me so that I fell into the water from off the dock.
My mother waited for me to come up and float, but I sank to the bottom and stayed there.
When she jumped in the water and pulled me out, I was as stiff as a board. (She told me later.)

At swimming lessons, I fought the water and was very fearful all of the first week.

During the second week, I was still very fearful. It was almost the last day when I finally DECIDED to trust the water.

Guess What!

I sunk a little, but then I floated! I actually started to enjoy the water.

I was sorry that I had not trusted the water sooner, since it was kind of fun floating on the water!

I WILL believe without fear or doubt!

I will be PERSISTENT!