Swimming Through Life

I'm going to tell you a story. Sit back! Get your popcorn, candy and junk ready! This is gonna be so fun!

Once upon a time there was a little blonde girl. This little blonde girl LOVED to swim. So one day she and her family decided to go swimming at this ULTRA COOL SWIMMING PARK close to her house. She had lots of fun going on slides and swimming in the pools and trying to hold her breath longer than the other kids and then she discovered the BRAND NEW AND SHINY swimming pool just for kids. Oh yah. This pool had cool things that could shoot water, a playground surrounded by water, squirt guns, and a really cool slide that you could go down. What made this new swimming pool even better was that it was JUST FOR KIDS! That meant the little blonde girl didn't have to worry about getting run over by adults, or nothing! So she took off! Her mother told her she would wait for her on the side of the pool right here right next to this big red umbrella so when the little blonde girl had her fun she could be reunited with her mother.

Well this little blonde girl had the time of her life! She swam and she swam and she would occasionally look over at her mother by the big red umbrella and her mother would wave back. She enjoyed the time she had in the kid pool. It was like she was grown up because she was swimming all by herself! She played for what seemed like hours and then ...whew, her arms grew tired. She just wanted to go and lie down on a towel and eat a hot dog. Yes. That seemed the appropriate thing to do after all the fun she'd had. So she looked over to where her mother had been and...Oh no. Her mother was gone! She'd been abandoned! How could this have happened! Why didn't her mother love her enough to stay with her! Maybe there had been a mistake, she wandered around for a little while on the side of the pool by the big red umbrellas but it was very crowded, after all it was a BRAND NEW POOL! Who wouldn't want to be here playing on all this awesomeness! She looked and she looked but she couldn't find her mother amid all the other people and children! She was really starting to worry now. Why would her mother leave? Was she going to be stuck here in the water park during the entire night? What would she do if she didn't find her mother!

She decided to do what she knew was best...which obviously was to go to the front of the water park and watch every single person who went through the gate to leave and make sure her family didn't get by without her! This is a perfect plan she thought, but she was still upset at the idea that her family, especially her mother, would leave her! She wandered toward the entrance and was so upset that her mother wouldn't watch after her! At the thought that her mother would actually leave her, she let her braveness go and burst into tears. A young man who worked at the water park came and asked the little blonde girl what was wrong, and she quickly explained the situation. At the same point when she had given up all hope she saw her mother walking toward her. Oh my goodness! She was saved! She asked her mother why she would leave her!? Didn't she know she was scared and lonely and she was young! She wasn't supposed to even be alone!

Her mother quickly explained that she was watching the little blonde girl the entire time! Her mother had seen her play for a long time and then she saw her wander away and get confused and her mother had followed her. Her mother had tried calling her a few times but the little girl couldn't hear because of all the other people having fun at the water park! Her mother had seen her looking worried and talk to the man who worked there and then burst into tears right before she made it to the little blonde girl. As they were once again reunited the little blonde girl once again felt safe and loved. They walked together back to their safe little area and had an enjoyable rest of the day

So...why did I just tell you that super awesome story? Well because let's face it. It applies to every single one of us! How often are we just enjoying our time here on earth and our Heavenly Father is safely watching over us? Sometimes we  look to Him every now and see that yes He is there but since I am doing well financially, emotionally, and physically, I don't need Him right now. It's not until we go a little too far off the path and get lost that we realize that we do need Him! Not just sometimes but all the time! Sometimes in life we get a little confused, sometimes we wander off the path and we get lost and when we go a little TOO far is when we realize that we are lost. When there are too many other distractions in life it is hard for us to recognize our Heavenly Father in our life. We need to get rid of those distractions in our own life and see what it is that can make us more aware of His hand in our life. We need our Heavenly Father and we need his comfort and guidance. When the little blond girl was lost she didn't know that her mother was walking not too far behind her. How true is that for us? When we think we are alone, when we think we are not important to Him, when we feel like no one is there for us, our Heavenly Father is there! Sometimes we just need to turn around and look for Him. We need to realize that we are lost and that if we simply turn back to our Heavenly Father we can feel that love and acceptance that we need. The lord truly knows what is best for us. I know that Heavenly Father loves us, I've felt it so many times in my own life whether it was just a quiet prompting or a knowledge that He was answering my prayers. Heavenly Father is always there for us. He knows what is best for us, and he knows what we need! All we need to do in our life is look towards Him in all things and He will be there!