Victoria Osteen

Well, I got kind of panicking as a little girl.

I thought, I got to find my family.

Where did they go?

So I swam as quick as I could, worked really hard to make it to shore, looking for my family, I walked to the left all the way as far as I could, couldn't find them, turned around, walked to the right, looking and looking for my family.

went at a distance, I spotted that red umbrella.

And can I tell you, as a little girl, that was a happy moment for me.

I thought, there they are, I'm safe and everything is okay.

You see, what I didn't realize was when I was out in that water,

Those undercurrents were slowly taking me down the beach.

It was so subtle.

I was playing, minding my own business, but they just drug me all the way down the beach, about 200 to 300 maybe more feet down the beach.

I didn't even realize what was happening to me.

You know, in life, it can be much like that.

There are undercurrents in life trying to drag us off, get us off course from where we are supposed to be.

I hear these comments a lot.

I was raised in church.

My whole life I went to church.

I don't know how I got so far away from God.

Spoke to a woman the other day.

She was telling me how happy her marriage was.