What if? – Could have – Might have- DIDN’T

My wife has been giving me the dickens and I’m to the point that I’m actually glad I’m heading to California today so I can obtain some peace and quiet. The source of her malcontent is that I went fishing by myself after work yesterday and had a small accident. I was hooked up with a large shark and as the battle progressed the shark went under the boat with a serious lunge. I had a hard time controlling him and my line got wrapped around one of my motors. I raised the motor with the tilt control and went to the back of the boat with my rod in one hand I used the other to try and free my line. The line was just a little bit too far down the motor, just out of reach. As I reached as far as I could and then some, the shark lunged again, and I lost my balance and ended up going head first over the back of the boat into the ocean. I had a hard time getting back into the boat as I did not want to lose my rod and reel and I was flailing around trying to get in one-handed. I finally made a super lunge, (thinking about being in the water with a hooked shark and his brothers and cousins being attracted to the action provided me ample energy to get back into the boat double time). I managed to get back in, and was even able to salvage my rod and reel and although I was soaked from head to toe, successfully landed the shark.



Unfortunately I tore the muscle from my ribcage during the melee and now am in terrible pain. If I so much as twist my torso five degrees I have pain shoot through me and I can even feel it in my teeth! I went to bed listening to my wife tell me how I could have hit my head and drowned, etc. etc. etc. I had trouble sleeping last night because of the excruciating pain racing through my body whenever I even slightly turned the wrong way, and I woke up to my wife lecturing me again about going fishing by myself and going through a litany of maladies that could have befallen me. I probably did not sleep an hour and am in a sour mood.
I’m wondering how I will manage a heavy suitcase and get my computer in the overhead compartment on the plane today. My wife glares at me whenever I walk through a room and I glare back…



My point is maybe I could have hit my head on the motor and drowned, been eaten by sharks as I flailed around, gotten tangled up in the line and cut my head off, etc. but I didn’t! I actually thought it was pretty funny until I noticed my muscles were torn away from my ribcage, my cell phone was in my pocket and my Blackberry was clipped to my belt and both vibrate continuously now and are toast. Accidents happen. My son bought a plane and daughter in law bought a horse. Planes crash and horses buck people off, (just ask Corey). I hope and pray that neither happens to them, but I know they enjoy their hobbies, and well, I just pray for the best. We cannot lock ourselves up in a room and escape any possibility of meeting our maker. We should live life to its fullest, exercise reasonable caution, but not go overboard with it. (I may have gone a little overboard.)



Billions of years ago each of us was appointed a time and a place to die and we will meet that appointment. I will not live my life in a sterile vacuum in fear, afraid to answer the door because a terrorist may be doing the knocking. If I die doing something that I love like fishing, well what an interesting way to go out. It far surpasses dying a mundane death like succumbing to cancer, heart attack, or stroke.
Perhaps this is a weakness of my thought process and reckless makeup.
If so I am comforted that God prays for me and even intercedes for a poor dumb bunny like me.



Romans 8:26

Likewise the Spirit also helps in

our weaknesses. For we do not

know what we should pray for as we

ought, but the Spirit Himself makes

intercession for us with groanings

which cannot be uttered.

Now He who searches the

hearts knows what the mind of the

Spirit is, because He makes intercession

for the saints according to the

will of God.



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