This is Equip and Empower, the Christine Cain podcast.

For everyone who desires to bring hope, create change, and live out their God-given

destiny with passion and joy. Here's your host, Christine Cain.

I am so glad that you've joined us on the other side of the screen. I don't believe it's

an accident that you've tuned in today. I know that God has a word for you. Now, you know

when I was growing up, as you can tell with my accent, my very refined Aussie accent,

I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and we used to go on vacation about an hour north to

a place called Humina. Now, if you've never ever been to the central coast of Australia

on the east coast, you've got to come. It's worth coming to Australia, period, but it's

worth coming for our beaches. I mean, they are awesome, but my parents would take us up.

Now, of course, in Australia, our summer is during December, January, February, so it's

kind of reversed to the northern hemisphere. We would go up for summer holidays. It was school

holidays over Christmas. Now, I live in America, so no one can believe that we actually have summer.

We used to have to change the words to Bing Crosby's, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

It was literally a dream for us in Australia. It wasn't like real at all. But anyway, we'd

go up on holidays. We would always go, I don't know why my parents did this, but we would always

go to the same holiday house. And it was during the week of summer holidays when there was this

thing called, like, Pelican itch in the water. All the pelicans would migrate to Humina. And so

my mother would take us up. Knowing we were going to get Pelican itch, have the bottle of

Calamine lotion. And so we'd swim in the day and we'd be full of pink Calamine lotion all night.

And I think like, really, we couldn't have gone another week, but anyway, we went with the pelicans.

But what would happen was there would always be this very strong undertow when we would go up

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