Have you ever pondered on the word “Swimming” before?

This morning as I sat down to blog, I was asked the age-old question so many youngsters have asked their parents for generations, “Can we go swimming, today?”  Being the first day of summer vacation and the temperature has been nearly 100 all week, that question has been on the tip of my 8yo’s tongue since Monday.

Of course, at the onset of that question my mind started wheeling and the pondering began.. Swimming…HMMMMMMM… never realized how deep that subject can really be..

You can swim in just about anything.  Pools of debt, sorrow, depression,  greed, clutter, and stuff are just a few examples.  You have heard the terms like “wading in,” “staying afloat” and “drowning” to describe the condition in which people are swimming in their pools of whatever.  I personally like and tend to use “knee deep.”

But do you know what bothers me the most???  How we have taken such a wonderful summertime pleasure like swimming and turned it into a bleak, miserable, and so adult figure of speech.  Couldn’t we just learn to swim only in swimming pools, lakes, rivers and oceans?  Why not bask in the sun with laughter and fond childhood memories?  Why can’t we just be a kid again and enjoy swimming? Can’t we just make a commitment to drain our “adult” pools and stick with it?

Trust me, since I am on the quest for balance, by the end of the summer the only pool this gal will be swimming in will be the ones filled with refreshing cool water.  You will find me basking in the sun, enjoying my kids and my nose stuck between the pages of a good book with no “adult” worries.

God Bless…..

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