03-31-2011 Hang on or Let go.

The conversation started out like this. "We were fishing in the ocean one day and had a failure with the engine of the boat we were on. With no power we were drifting toward shallow water where there were numerous rock formations. Most certainly if we stayed with the boat we would be pulverized by the rocks. If we left and went into the water we would most likley get hypothermia or perish because of fatigue. We still had power in the battery and were able to make a call to the Coast Guard and any others that were in the area. We made our distress call waited. As time seemed to pass slowly, and as we drifted closer to the rocks, we were now faced with a decision. How long were we going to wait for a response? Did anyone hear us? Would we stay with the boat until that last minute? If we stayed with the boat, we would have less time in the water and not very much more time until we were in the rocks also. Would we time it so that we were close enough yet not so close, so that if we weren't rescued, the hypothermia and fatigue would take us so that we wouldn't suffer the punishment from the rocks. So many things swirled through our minds in an instant." Do we find ourselves in these situations emotionally, physically and spiritually? How many times have we played the various possibilities over and over again? Finally, we are rescued and the way in which we were, was not at all one of the options we had even considered. GR