What Jellyfish is Sinking Your Boat?

As we read today of enormous jellyfish sinking a Japanese fishing trawler it makes me wonder - What jellyfish is sinking my boat?

These 400lb jellyfish did not catch & disable the boat by fouling it’s propeller and reaching with tentacles, clinging & pulling slowly overcoming the ship, pulling her to the bottom as the title might suggest. No, they unwittingly became tangled in the boat’s fishing nets. It was the fishermen’s unwillingness to let go of the nets that capsized and sank their boat. As they were hauling in their nets the weight of the jellyfish caused their boat to capsize. All they would have had to do was stop pulling in their nets and let them go.

What are you not willing to let go of that is dragging you down? What has you anchored and is dangerously close to sinking you?

I wonder how experienced fisherman in calm conditions could capsize their 10 ton trawler? From the outside looking in it seems absurd! It is as plain as day simple. Stop pulling in the nets stupid – it’s going to sink you.

I’m sure the fisherman recognized the situation as problematic, a trial but thought they could make it through. They had to get the nets in. Even though things were a little tough they could make it. The situation was in no way so dire as to sacrifice their nets.

What problems or trials are you in? What job, relationship, house, habbit or addiction are you hanging on to that is about to sink you? You’re gripping tightly, blindly marching on trusting, thinking that you can handle it. What is so painfully obvious to everyone around you that you refuse to see? It’s time to acknowledge the truth of the situation – Let go before you’re thrown into the sea. Let go before your life is capsized and turned upside down. It will be a small sacrifice to pay in exchange for your life.