ready for the impact zone

     In this post I included a quote from "Soul Surfer." One of the key phrases in the quote was "the next wave." This metaphor applies to my life strangely well; I was in the "impact zone," then I got out and went over "the next wave," and now I'm in the impact zone again (just to let you know, the only way I know any surfing terms is because of Soul Surfer. I'm not some pro surfer blogger over here. :D). But this time, I'm ready. I'm equipped for this next plunge underwater.
     It's really funny how I have always heard things but never seen them in my life! Like what's happening now. I knew that people learn things from trials, and here I am, wiser and more hopeful in this trial than I was in the last one. I don't know whether this one seems easier because it really isn't as intense or shocking, or if the intenseness and shock are dulled by the hope I learned to have from the last trial (if that makes sense).
     The main thing I learned is that there is always an end to a trial. I face this trial now, assured that sometime the sun will come out and Jesus will have helped me triumph over another hard time. Another quote from "Soul Surfer" comes to mind:

"I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe something good is going to come out of it. I don't know what that is."

I don't know what that is. I don't. But God does. I will benefit greatly from this.
     So now I will look ahead to the light at the end of the tunnel, knowing that there IS indeed a light.

-Sarah :)