But that was a side note with some rowing update for you, because I was talking about treading water!! I thought I'd give you a picture of some literal treading water, but I feel like I'm doing the figurative treading. Which is, I believe, a Dutch expression. When you tread water really hard to keep your head above the water, what it means is that everything you do costs SO much energy, that you feel like you're barely making it through the day. I hesitate to write this on my blog :) But it is how I feel as of late. You think to yourself - it's time to sit on my couch and allow some emotions! Oh no, shopping. Oh no, cooking. Oh no, washing the dishes. Oh no, watering the garden. Oh no, cleaning up some mess. Oh no.... pfew, time to sleep. It's tough. And I'll admit to you: sometimes I feel God very near, and an amazing song just happens to come my way at just the right moment. Sometimes I don't experience much at all. And I'm reminded of the words that have recently come my way twice in most surprising ways: we walk by faith, NOT by sight!
It's why I have been so dramatically bad in posting any updates as of late. I've been busy, busy, busy; busy treading water. Of which you see the proof in the above picture. It was taken on a warm, sunny day, when I jumped in the Amstel after I had gone rowing. My rowing skills, it might please you to know, have been improving greatly. I think I'll probably not participate in the paralympics in September, but I have now come so far that I can actually have a relatively normal conversation while rowing.. Apparently you have to row at least a year before you kind of get the hang of it. So yes, no paralympics for me. I'm not really into training 20 hours a week anyways.
But that was a side note with some rowing update for you, because I was talking about treading water!! I thought I'd give you a picture of some literal treading water, but I feel like I'm doing the figurative treading. Which is, I believe, a Dutch expression. When you tread water really hard to keep your head above the water, what it means is that everything you do costs SO much energy, that you feel like you're barely making it through the day. I hesitate to write this on my blog :) But it is how I feel as of late. You think to yourself - it's time to sit on my couch and allow some emotions! Oh no, shopping. Oh no, cooking. Oh no, washing the dishes. Oh no, watering the garden. Oh no, cleaning up some mess. Oh no.... pfew, time to sleep. It's tough. And I'll admit to you: sometimes I feel God very near, and an amazing song just happens to come my way at just the right moment. Sometimes I don't experience much at all. And I'm reminded of the words that have recently come my way twice in most surprising ways: we walk by faith, NOT by sight!
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Mattanja OosterhuisHaving grown up in diverse places on earth, I suppose I've learned to make the best of what comes my way. Such as a hemorrhage. After this bleeding in my head occurred in dec. 2010, my life has come to look different. On my blog I write about some of this. Archives
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