{"id":326,"date":"2020-04-18T22:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T22:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/?p=326"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:39:41","slug":"body-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Body Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Body-Surfing.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&#8220;<strong><em>God has given us a Spirit of Power and of Love&#8230;<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<br>                                                       <strong><em>2 Timothy 1:7<\/em><\/strong><br><br>Summer Time in the South.<br>Ninety-nine degrees in the shade.<br>Humidity&#8230; Worn like an outer layer of clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Thunder Storms every afternoon and&#8230;<br>The Beach!<br>Cool breezes skipping up off the ocean, faintly whispering&#8230;<br>&#8220;Nahhhh, you&#8217;re not getting burned&#8230;<br>You&#8217;re hardly even pink&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">And sand&#8230; Sand everywhere!<br>Hot Sand&#8230; Hot sand to run across like a ballerina on opening night.<br>Sticky sand&#8230; Sticky sand to cake onto sweaty sunscreen.<br>Sand in shoes and Sand in shorts.<br>But it&#8217;s alright&#8230;  Cause we talking Beach Sand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">And then there&#8217;s the ocean&#8230; <br>You remember, don&#8217;t you?<br>Warm white foam feeling so good swirling up around your ankles&#8230;<br>Oh but then turning a little chilly, as you wade on in knee deep.<br>And finally&#8230; Finally downright icy as it climbs up to your belly button.<br>Now&#8217;s &#8217;bout the time to gather the nerve to take the plunge, right?<br>The plunge that feels ooooohhh&#8230;&#8230;. sooooo&#8230;&#8230;. good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Now I gotta tell you guys all that&#8217;s fine but for me&#8230;<br>The best of it all&#8230; The coup de gras&#8230;<br>It&#8217;s gotta be the waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The bigger the better.<br>I&#8217;m talking save the women and children hold on to your hat kinda waves. Waves made for one thing and one thing only&#8230;<br>Body Surfing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I love body surfing.<br>The rush of catching a wave just right. <br><br><em><strong>All that<\/strong> <strong>power!<\/strong><\/em><br><br>Rushing white tipped breakers of pure energy.<br>Energy to get lost in. Or if you ain&#8217;t ready, get crushed by.<br><br>This must be what Superman feels like when he leaps into the air to fly.<br>Yep. Here come a wave. <br>Look y&#8217;all,  I&#8217;m Superman!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">And such is the power of the Spirit of God at work! <br>You Know there&#8217;s times in my life when I catch hold of the Power of the Spirit just so&#8230; Times when I&#8217;m right in step with the energy of the Spirit of God. Times when that rushing white tipped breaker of pure energy sweeps me along.<br> Along towards&#8230; Well&#8230; Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong><em>Father in Heaven, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit&#8230;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Thank You for those moments of pure Heaven<\/em><\/strong>.<br><strong><em>Thank You for even a glimpse of the Life to come.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Move us more and more into step with Your<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Spirit<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<br><strong><em>So that this Life we long for&#8230; This life that is Life&#8230;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>This abiding in You<\/em><\/strong>&#8230; <strong><em>It becomes<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>our daily reality.<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Amen<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong><em>&#8220;Since we live by the Spirit, Let us also keep in step with the Spirit.&#8221;<br>                                                                                                             Galatians 5:25&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God has given us a Spirit of Power and of Love&#8230;&#8220; 2 Timothy 1:7 Summer Time in the South.Ninety-nine degrees in the shade.Humidity&#8230; Worn like an outer layer of clothing. Thunder Storms every afternoon and&#8230;The Beach!Cool breezes skipping up off the ocean, faintly whispering&#8230;&#8220;Nahhhh, you&#8217;re not getting burned&#8230;You&#8217;re hardly even pink&#8221; And sand&#8230; Sand everywhere!Hot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/?p=326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Body Surfing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corelifecoach.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}