On Sharks, Praying, and almost dying AGAIN...

Well I promised another story about a week ago so here it is... Last week I wrote about how I almost drowned in the ocean. That same ocean holds a few more stories about me. Same trip, September 1990 on my Honeymoon. Randy and I had an ocean view Hotel Room, like the beach was just feet away from our balcony. During the morning after our first night there we had devotionals then we were praying together at the foot of the bed. To be honest HE was praying *I* was too fascinated with the view out side our windows. I tried really hard to focus, truly I did BUT the great out doors just kept calling me... In between bowing my head and keeping a vigilant eye on the ocean something or several somethings caught my eye. Keep in mind, Randy had traveled alllll over the country, while I had hardly been out of my own back yard. Sure we took camping trips and even went to FL a few times when I was a child but that doesnt count cuz I dont remember it. SO that being said as I looked out into the vast ocean what do I see but a group of SHARKS !! I mean like seven or eight of them. I became VERY alarmed for the people that were swimming in the ocean not far from these vicious creatures. But Randy unlike ME was praying, head bowed, eyes closed, unaware that *I* was feeling guilt ridden because I just could not focus on praying ~ and then I started feeling scared for those people and I felt I had a duty to interrupt Randy and tell him we had some people to go save. Seriously ! So there I was kneeling at the foot of the bed NOT praying and in fact I was worrying. Eventually my conscience got the best of me and I started tugging on Randys arm like a two year old. (lol) "Randy, Randy sorry but LOOK out the window, there are SHARKS out there..." He stops praying and being the dutiful husband looks out the window, looks back at me with a look as if to say "Really, Tiff ?" then he smiles his best "I'm trying not to patronize you but thats what I'm about to do, smile" and says "Tiff, hunny, those are NOT sharks, they are DOLPHINS !" I looked again and I said something like "But they have FINS and they are BIG, are you sure those people are safe ?" HE had seen enough oceans in enough states to be confident that they were in fact Dolphins. After a moment or two he had me all calmed down, and I even finished praying but still kept my eyes peeled in case a scene from Jaws started taking place on the beach... Later that morning we went down to the beach and after some convincing he coaxed me into the water and out to where those 'sharks' were waiting to feed on poor innocent people. To my amazement and child like wonder, he was right, there we stood surrounded by beautiful DOLPHINS. =) ~This is all I have time for at the moment~ I will pick up with my 2nd 'near death experience' where Randy once again saved my life, some other time. (like, he said I was DEAD, no pulse, no breathing, unresponsive pupils DEAD for several minutes) The ONLY thing I recall was what I saw before I went down (which I will share later) and then as if in a dense fog or deep sleep I heard a voice echoing ~it was almost as if I were in a cave or a tunnel and the voice was bouncing off the walls~ and this voice said "TIFF, TIFF dont leave me ! PLEASE TIFF !! Dont leave me !!!" then I heard, or maybe *thought* (I'll never know for sure) "Go back to him, Come back to me, Go back to him" then I was awake. No clue where I was, and I didnt even know my own name for a moment or two. There was a paramedic in my face looking very concerned and then there was my Randy, looking very relieved with tears streaming down his face, and it registered "I just died -or almost died- and he saved my life AGAIN..." I may not have known my own name in that moment but I knew someone LOVED me and I knew that I loved HIM and I knew somehow everything would be OK, but first, I needed to figure out what the heck happened... To Be Continued =)