Marvin is a surfer. He loves to go to the beach and ride the waves; the bigger the wave the better. On this particular morning, the waves were just right, running at five to 10 feet per wave. He took his surfboard and paddled out onto the water. When he arrived at the just the right place on the water, the place where the perfect wave just starts to build, and move towards the beach, he started to rapidly paddle his surfboard with his arms propelling himself towards the shore and the perfect ride.
The wave started moving Marvin slowly at the start, but as the wave continued to build, it grew in strength and speed. At just the right spot on the wave Marvin stood up on his surfboard riding to his left then to his right faster and faster as he continued to move toward the beach on that perfect wave to land smoothly on the beach. Marvin was at the peek of his game enjoying every move he made on his surfboard. He was no show-off, just another person enjoying the surf. Time and again he road the waves, only to find that not all of the waves he choose were to his liking. Some waves broke just as he began to stand up on his surfboard plunging him into the water. From time to time when this happened, he would be plunged deep into the wave to be tumbled and battered in every direction, it seemed all at the same time. He would struggle to surface surviving to ride the wave to the shore unharmed.
The wave that Marvin was riding was the wave of his physical life, the wave that effectively described a perfect life as smooth and thrilling as it could be. Some waves allowed Marvin to move in any direction he desired and as fast and easily as he liked without any kind of incidence that would cause him to be thrown off his surfboard of life, plunging him into troubled waters. But not all waves are perfect. Some waves start out to be perfect, but soon break into turbulent waters.
Life can be like a perfect wave for many people while others it seems are tossed to and fro with little regard to their safety and wellbeing. It is always up to us to try and choose the right wave at the beginning of our physical life, but this is not always possible. Some of us invariably choose the wrong wave even though it started out smoothly, building too a perfect wave front, but it was not to be. The wave would start to break before we realized it, throwing us off our surfboard into troubled waters, drawing us down into the boiling and churning water beneath the wave. If we are not able to climb out of the water, by swimming to the surface to emerge and grab onto our surfboard, to climb back on it, or layout on the water to continue to ride the wave, we are often dashed upon the rocky shore battered and broken.
Life can be great when we choose the right wave or it can be a life filled with troubled water. Whatever kind of wave we ride, it is always up to us to make the best of it. We strive to find the wave where we are able to make a contribution to society and our families through showing others how it is done. We striving to be builders of all that life can be through being filled with peace, love, joy and happiness. But, sometimes we do not choose the right wave so that we are unwittingly thrown into the troubled waters of wrong decisions and actions. We believe that we are intelligent, well educated and able to be all that we can be. We strive to find a place where we can contribute to the good of all. To avoid being thrown a curve that throws us off our surfboard plunging us deep into troubled waters. However, troubled waters are designed to teach us lessons even if they are hard lessons for us to learn, lessons nonetheless.
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