When I was a kid, my father thought the best way to teach me to swim was to throw me in the deep end. He also threw me off of a high dive, but that is a story for another day. He meant well, but it took a LOT of swim lessons to get me over my fear of drowning. Even after I joined the swim team, I still worried there might be sharks in the deep end. Don’t tell me you never thought about it!

In any event, there are many times in life where I have relieved that terrifying feeling that I must come up to the surface and get moving fast so that I don’t drown. Taking that first job as a district coordinator was definitely one of them!