Summer 2010:
While talking one night with some youth leaders I mentioned one of my dreams. The next week, a youth leader told me that a summer camp contacted him and said that one of their boat drivers quit and asked if he knew anyone who might be interested in the position. He gave them my name.
This is the beauty of working in teams and doing life in community. We can encourage one another and help each other pursue our callings and dreams. He had been the previous boat driver at that camp so I asked him to tell me everything he knew about boat driving.
I went to camp and for two weeks before the kids arrived I had to learn how to drive the boats while and take people on water skis, wakeboards and tubes etc. This was when fear started to hit. The safety of kids lives were on the line and I had no experience. I prayed a lot. That first day of training I felt sick. I don't know if it was because we had to wake up at 5a.m, if I was sea sick or felt sick after hearing about all the injury stories of years past. I wanted to quit.
God said that I had a choice to make. "Lindsay, you can choose to live by fear or by faith."
That summer was wild. Being on the water for hours every day was amazing, challenging and exhilarating. I learned how to do turns in order to give the best rides. After 2 months of long days on the water, long nights cleaning the boat, I was in awe of God's faithfulness. I got to work with an amazing team doing something I'd always dreamed of. Pretty rad when your office is the ocean ;)
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