If I can just make it to the boat I'll be perfectly fine.

Have you every thought of your safe place? A place you can go where everything is fine, life is good, and the worries of the world don't matter. The world has melted away and all that's left is you and the place you are or the thing you're doing. I know that so many times I would be struggling through the day and my thoughts were, "Just make it practice. Just get in the boat and row the worries away." Now I'm not saying that it's where all the worries go away forever. For rowing, it just delayed them for a time. In the boat, it was me, my oar, the boat, and the water. Land contained the stresses and the water was my shelter. I guess my worries can't swim.

  Rowing is not my only safe place. I actually have 4.
1. Rowing
2. My trampoline. This has been my longest and most used one. It's easily accessible especially if I've just gotten in a argument with family or something happens in my house. I've always been pretty good at trampoline stuff. It come pretty easily to me. So jumping for about 5 minutes filled with back layouts and tucks normally completely calms me down.
3. Ultimate. My new found safe place. When I have a frisbee or am running around trying to get open for one the world is okay.
4. Running. I dont do this one very often but after a run I am normally completely relaxed. I love running to clear my head and pray.
The funny thing about these things is they are all athletic things, and they are all things I'm relatively good at. At that my friends is the secret to my safe place. When I'm failing at life, and I can't seem to do anything right, I go do something I'm good at. It's a little place I have control over what happens. Without these things life would be very difficult and I am so thankful that God has allowed me to enjoy this stuff.