Surfing Through Life
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Sometimes life feels like we're surfing a huge wave. When we're in that wave we can be consumed by it or ride it like the best monster wave surfer on the planet.
The beautiful thing about this story is that I do not surf. Sure I body surf, to be sure, but as for board surfing, I am not even a wannabe, or an obiwankinobe. I am a friend to many surfers and since I live at the beach, I feel comfortable using this analogy.
When I was writing this story, I thought of my friend Ren Fortier and his annual trips to Fiji. Thus the dedication. No worries, the boy is alive and well and still surfing life and wave, knee brace and all.
To read along with the story, go to http://koehlerville.blogspot.com/2007/11/surfing-through-life.html
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John Koehler
Virginia Beach, Virginia
John is a graphic designer, author, ministry director and world champ.
A 1980 graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Communications Arts and Design, John also did graduate work at GWU.
John is the managing Partner of Koehler Nelson Studios http://www.koehlernelson.com/ which has won numerous gold and silver Addy awards. John is a past president of the Hampton Roads Ad Club.
In 2005 John became the Hampton Roads Area Director for Young Life Capernaum, a ministry dedicated to helping children with disabilities.
John published Bipolar by Koehler http://www.bpbk.com/ in 2005, and just published Benjamin, The Road to Capernaum http://www.benjaminroad.com/
He is the 1991 Boomerang World Champion, and the coach of the 2002 World Champion US Boomerang Team. He was also a member of the Foster's Boomerang 2000 Team. John is also a proud member of the Bürpenfärtzen Brothers, as well as The Noblemen, a philanthropic group.
Married since 1982 to his college sweetheart, Patty, an art teacher at Old Donation Center for the Gifted and Talented, John is the proud father of Kim and Danielle. Both are honor roll students and excellent artists.
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If you were walking along and met God, and you could ask him just one question, what would you ask him?
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John,
Your writing touches the soul of those who read your thoughts, as you always write from the heart and then add the mind. Surfing is the closest thing on earth to being in God's hands because it requires many natural events to occur at the same time(wind, swell, degree, angle, moon, low pressure). Like a great symphony moment, when it is all right and every thing is in tempo, greatness abounds! I find that God's magic is truly in the "barrel" of a wave and surely in your heart.Keep writing. Ren
Thanks Mr. Ren. I reckon if I can touch a Fiji surfer with this story then it is worth a long left break all the way to shore.