Haloes! J
“Don't limit
yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can
go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve…”
~ Mary Kay Ash
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
“But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the
more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For
when I am weak, then I am strong…”
Psalm 46:1
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in
trouble.”
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes
against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will
turn…” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into
us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in
our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday…” ~ John Wayne
Ek het die voorreg gehad om Vrydag by ‘n konferensie, ‘n
motiverings praatjie deur Chris Bertish te hoor… Hy is ‘n outjie al die pad van Kenilworth in
die Kaap, maar een met groot hart, en groot waagmoed… Surfing is een van sy
passies en elke moontlike geleentheid wat hy gehad het om aan ‘n kompetisie te
kon deelneem of om ‘n spesiale uitnodiging te kry, het hy ten volle aangegryp! Hy is iemand wat werklik LEEF, en glo dat
wanneer ‘n geleentheid jou kant toe kom, jy sorg dat jy dit aangryp… Ek’t een van sy sukses stories waarvan hy ons
vertel het vir julle gaan soek op die Internet – ek deel dit graag met
julle… Mavericks is een van die beste
“surf spots” naby San Francisco… Mag
hierdie jou inspireer…
“Chris Bertish's journey to Maverick's alone would
exhaust most. First, after all his
sacrifices to get the invitation, he almost didn't have enough money to make
the trip. He managed to cobble together emergency loans from his brother and a
friend to pay for his flight from South Africa and then spent the next 36 hours
on a plane. From his home in Cape Town, he had to make stops in Amsterdam,
Detroit and San Francisco, where he arrived late the night before the 2010
contest. His custom big wave gun and
wetsuit, however, didn't arrive until days later. An airlines official
suggested he could rent them once he got to the beach. Again, a friend stepped up to loan Bertish a
surfboard, but riding a borrowed board wasn't going to do much for his chances
of fulfilling his goal of winning in his first attempt. Neither did the lack of
sleep do him any favors. But those wouldn't be his biggest obstacles that day.
That came in the form of a 50-foot rogue wave...
Ten minutes into his first heat, on his way back into the
lineup, Bertish saw the wave coming. He paddled to the outside of the break,
sure the giant wouldn't rise up that far outside the channel. Usually he's good
at gauging the movements of the ocean. This time, he wasn't. The wave reared up
and crashed down right on top of him, dunking him deep into the frigid waters.
The current then dragged him what he estimates to be a quarter mile under water
before letting him up for air. "By
the time I got picked up, I was like a lifeless corpse. I thought I was done
for the whole day," Bertish told the Sentinel after the event. Then, he re-evaluated: "In life, sometimes you only
get one chance to live your dream. So, I just put it in my head that I had to
get back up. "Bertish got back into the lineup in time to catch
another wave and advanced to the quarterfinals and then the semifinals. During
that round, he took another wave on the head while making a cutback under the
lip. He didn't spill any blood until the final, though, when he bit a gash into
his own lip during a ride that helped him win $50,000 -- more than enough for a
plane ticket home. "We were really fortunate that (the organizers) held
the contest in borderline suicide conditions, but they were still
rideable," Bertish said of the experience. "They pushed big wave
surfing to a new level."
Hoe inspirerend is hierdie nie? Die brander wat hom 0,804 km onder die water
gestamp het, waar hy net meer as 5 minute onder die water was, kon sy einde
beteken het… Hy het egter aan ons gesê
dat daar twee woorde is wat hy uit sy woordeskat verban het… “Kan nie” en “onmoontlik”… Sodra jy ‘n limiet op jouself plaas deur jou
woorde, glo jou brein dit… Maar wanneer
opgee nie ‘n opsie is nie, veg mens tot die bitter einde… By God bestaan die woord onmoonlik ook
nie! Hy spesialiseer in die
“onmoontlike” situasies… Wanneer God ‘n
droom in jou hart sit – moenie bang wees as dit groter is as wat jou brein kan
kleinkry nie… Wanneer jy saam met Hom
stap is daar geen limiete op wat gedoen en bereik kan word nie… He will open doors, which no man can
close… Vertrou net!
Blessings!
Anel xx
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