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Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

Bethany Hamilton

Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I’m up at 5 A.M. every day.
BETHANY HAMILTON

Running Volleyball Workout
I’m actually not star-struck… I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.
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Distance Space Stars
I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it’s been a special relationship. To me it’s not a religion; it’s just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.
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Heart Jesus Reading
I’m a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord – and how to surf!
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Brother Christian Heart
Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.
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Competition Firsts Sharks
The paramedic whispered in my ear ‘God will never leave you or forsake you.’
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Ears God Inspirational Will
I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.
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Dinner Tennis Water
God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.
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Heaven Ocean Surfing
To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean – that’s scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
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Creative Ocean Scary
Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.
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Inspirational Jesus Sharks
You don’t need easy, you just need possible.
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Easy Needs Possible
Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don’t do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
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Focus Frustrated Surfing
It’s hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you’ll never surf again was gone in one wave.
BETHANY HAMILTON

Doubt Inspirational Joy
I wouldn’t change what happened to me because then I wouldn’t have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.
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Arms People Two
The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – “not just sketches, but real art”. She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, “God painting His storyboard on the sky”.
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Art Nature Real
In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.
BETHANY HAMILTON

Inspirational Shark Surfing

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

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