When I was a child I would go to a Methodist church on Sundays with my grandmother, I would sing hymns and attend Sunday school. Before I went to church I often wondered if there was a god, if someone watching over us. As I grew and we moved from place to place I stopped going to Sunday school but I still had that wonder and part of me knew there was someone up there. When I was surfing one day after a storm in the Catlins, I was wrestling with thoughts of school and popularity. The waves were troubled and messy, the sets kept coming in the same, and the first wave of the set was always doubled on the face. I was determined to catch a wave so after five sets, I caught the first wave of the set it doubled up and I rode down the first lip and went over the second. Diving head first into the surf my board went with the wave, got caught in an undertow and I was dragged under the water. I struggled at first, but then remembered to stay calm as I let the current subside. When the rush had passed I went to swim up to the surface and had no movement only my eyes could move, I had run out of air. As I realised that I was unable to move looking up to the surface and was deep underwater, I began to realise that this was it. I was at peace I thought of my kin and vänner and the vänner I hadn’t meet, the only concern was they would worry about what happened to me..... “So I guess this is it", "thought my life would have been longer”, “ as light shined down through the water above, with the thought of how short my life had been. A thought that this might not be the end crossed my mind, with no pressing issues and no distraction. There was only true calm, this was the perfect time to answer the one question on my mind is there a creator, so with all my heart “ "god”..... the only name I knew. Immediately I was laid back into unconsciousness, as I drifted I saw a vision of the letters G.O.D in red scribed into something. Instantly I was above the water heading up over a hill above the bay as I ascended I notice a line of people standing on the hill looking up at me nodding. Then I was in the atmosphere and I was in the presence of someone, I looked but my eyelids wouldn’t open. Then thought that came from the someone began to address me, “did you enjoy your life” he said I thought about it and looked over my life “yes” I said. Then he asked “would you go back if you had the chance”, I thought about my life and creation. I remembered how compassionate life is and how when things get in the way and you get upset and then the joy when you get over them, how awesome it is to know how awesome life is, and is supposed to be, so I thought to myself "it is worth it". Then the someone asked “ would you go back if you had the chance”, “Not to be any disrespect to this place or the next but yes I would go back” I said, then instantly I was struck by lightning as I descended I made out three or so figures standing above, where I once was. As I descended I seen the people on the hillside again, then the surface of the water. As I went back through the water in to my body I seen the lightning again, instantly I stood up as the lightning resurected my bod, I was standing on the shore, then my board bumped into my side. “Wow” I thought “ “creation is real!”, as I walked into the shallows, I started to get a headache so I relaxed a bit, “I’m sure that was real”crossed my mind, “maybe it was just a dream”, “ nah it was real" I thought, then I walked back up the shore to the batch.
