I starting thinking, "What would I do right now if sharks surrounded me? Would I scream? Would I move? Would I die right here on this surf board from a heart attack?" Call me dramatic but I was one scared little beginner. Although the water wasn't deeper than I am tall, I couldn't see further than an inch under it and, as we've just discussed, I was not okay with that. With the shore to my back and the horizon in front of me, panic set it. My surf partner, Erin, was going first so our instructor was helping her get ready for her first wave while I managed to float off to no-man's land on my own. Not until I was in deeper water, laying horizontally on my surf board, anyway. I could not wait to catch a wave and it never struck me that this might be a little scary. The lesson on sand was cool but not exciting enough. Even if the water is a foot deep but is dark, no ma'am - it ain't happening! However, it never occurred to me that in order to surf I would, in fact, need to go IN the ocean to find waves. If you know me, you know I'm deathly afraid of sharks, deep water, and dark water. The next morning I woke up early to go with friends to a surf lesson. I looked around at my squad passionately singing and I thought, "Man, I've gotta get this song, apparently." I later downloaded it and listened to it over and over and over on repeat as I lay in my hot, sticky, bunk bed waiting to fall asleep. I'd never heard the recently-made-popular song, Oceans by Hillsong United until the night my squad sang it during worship. When I came home from the World Race, I spoke at different churches and every time I told a story about our final debrief. And like the song, my tattoo means far more than what meets the eye. But that's not what the song means is it? No, no. What does that even mean? I can't walk more than a mile without complaining about some major back pains, so for me, "deeper than my feet could wander" wouldn't be very far at all.
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