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But Do You Want to Live that Way?

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This past week my dad, Betsy, and I had a lot of work. Some of our jobs being quiet difficult and the tight schedule caused us to have to work late a few nights. By Thursday afternoon I felt like it was Friday. I found my tired thoughts daydreaming about Saturday morning when I could sleep in. On Friday morning I drug myself out of bed feeling like a drowning lap swimmer. I thought, If I can just make it through. Now I don’t know how many of you out there are swimmers, and I won’t say I’m much of one. But as a means of exercise I did have my “lap swimming” phase. Well one morning I went to the pool and all of the lap lanes were full. So I started doing some walking water aerobics in the kiddy pool. After a short time, the lifeguard came over and offered to open up the diving well for me, so that I could swim my laps. I thanked him and went down to that part of the pool. Now my typical routine was, swim a couple laps, walk a couple laps. This was not to be done in the divin...