Just go into the water!

This morning I went swimming at a friend’s condo. The water there is much colder than the public swimming pool. Sometimes there is a tendency to test the water using our feet and try to feel it is warm enough before we go into the water. The thing is that most probably it will never be warm enough which means that we won’t go into the water. So one suggestion is just to go inside the water immediately.

This reminds me that sometimes we are stronger than we thought. That is one of the lessons from my travel to the US during winter. I could not imagine how I survived since I already could not stand the chill of 18 degrees Celcius. But since I already decided to go for the conference in the Washington DC, then there is no more option, we just have to face it. Surprisingly, it was fine. Something that I could not imagine before. Perhaps it is through some practice like having gone to Taipei and Chongqing before. But still I thought I would face more difficulties where it turns out that my body adapts well.

Going back to work tomorrow feels tough. It feels that I could not do it. But similar to the swimming pool experience, what I can do is to just go and do it.

Of course, I have to be careful not going to the extreme where I think I can do everything without an educated calculation. This is where praying is significant. Because God never gives something that we cannot deal with. So make sure that it has high chance that God wants us to do - since we may not know for sure - so that we can just go to the water, even if it is to walk on the water - which for now, I don’t think I’m called for that. I think I need to be faithful first into jumping into cold swimming pool of which depth is low enough for me to stand on the ground.