The other Steven Curtis Chapman song that really motivates me is “The Big Adventure”.
Saddle up your horses, we have a trail to blaze, to the wild blue yonder and God’s amazing grace! Let’s follow our leader, to the glorious unknown…..this is life like no other, this is, the Big Adventure!
No looking back! Living the Big/Great Adventure. Something to live for and to die for. To be honest, I felt a lot like that…..well, literally I was heading to the great west, to the somewhat unconquered land of Montana where cowboy-like adventure still exist!
I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to travel – sometimes because I wanted to and sometimes because I had to. Sometimes travel is not so pleasant, like when you’re stranded in an airport for a day or longer. Or slogging your way through the Arizona dessert in the middle of the summer in a non-air-conditioned VW van, or….you pick your poison. We all have our choice of travel foes. But thanks to my folks, my work, my church, and an adventurous wife, I have been able to travel to a bunch of places and each has been an adventure. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I almost find it easy to leave the comfort of my home, office, or church for the goal of closing a sweet business deal, or taking food to the hungry, or the gospel to the perishing….somewhere else, far away and wild. And, sometimes I feel I’m pretty good at that. But what I’m not good at is getting off the comfort of my couch to go and talk to my neighbor a little more in depth than the casual conversation, or the usual request to use his extension ladder. I might quickly sign up for a trip elsewhere and endure hours in the airport, being frisked by some big lady with rubber gloves, the long hours in tight quarters on an airplane, the assault on the senses of all the new sounds, smells and sights upon arrival. But I’m not so hot at living out in a sacrificial way right around the corner.
I want to live that way. I want to saddle up my spiritual horse and blaze a trail to my new neighbors in Helena. I believe adventure is right around the corner for all of us if we’ll just have it. The sense of adventure can be there everywhere, if we’ll just take that step and go beyond our comfort zone. Let’s try it….I’m all for it.
Best,
