Every Word – She Quit Too Soon

It was an ambitious idea but she was determined 
it was 1952 and Florence Chadwick at the time in  

her early 30s was attempting to swim from 
the California coast to Catalina Island  

26 miles as far as a marathon a flotilla of 
support craft went with her people who were  

watching for sharks others who would 
help her if she got injured or tired  

as Florence swam thick fog rolled in and unable 
to see the coastline she became discouraged  

she got out of the water and gave up the swim 
and then she found out she was only one mile from  

Catalina island two months later she attempted to 
swim again and again fog rolled in but this time  

she imagined the shoreline of Catalina island 
was just ahead and thinking that enabled her  

to keep going keep going keep going and she made 
it she swam the english channel both ways as well  

as the straits of Gibraltar and the Bosphorus in 
turkey she demonstrated that persistence is vital  

to a person’s success there are times in life that 
you want to quit but if you just keep pressing on  

you can find that you actually can do what 
you set out to do in christianity it isn’t  

about pushing forth in your own strength but it 
is about pressing on in the strength of Jesus,  

Paul wrote to the Philippians and said brethren I 
do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet  

but one thing i do forgetting what lies 
behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead  

i press on toward the goal for the prize of the 
upward call of God in Christ Jesus Philippians  

3:13 and 14 when things get tough in your 
Christian experience keep your eyes on Jesus and  

press on in his strength his biddings are enabling 
in his strength you can do it so wait on Jesus  

and trust in him to get you through 
I’m John Bradshaw for It Is Written