Month 10-Peter Pan Said It Best

I think Peter Pan said it best.

“To live would be an awfully big adventure.”

Somewhere along this season of my life, and this 11 month journey I began learning how to really live. I began learning how to to dive deeper into this great big adventure we call life.

And I thought saying yes to the Race was that plunge. . . this young buck had a lot to learn.

Isn't it funny that when you type the word “love” spellcheck corrects it, turning it into “live”.

Those two should be, and are synonymous. To truly love is to fully live. To fully live, is to truly love.

A friend asked me the other day about my heart, and what was going on with it. “Care to share?” they said. At first I was at a loss for words. Silenced by the compounding amount of emotion my sensitive heart has been feeling. I had no clue what to say, or how to say it. Questions arose in my mind “what is going on in my heart?” “Am I truly living?” “Am I fully loving?” Can I share my life & love, and will it be an adventure for others as it has for me or is this just some nice mission trip?

I began to write, not just about month 10, but the journey and adventure before me, and behind me. . .

There is something revolutionary about this journey

Something captivating about this adventure

This invitation to capture

This invitation to have & hold

Maybe it's washing clothes by hand everyday

Or maybe it's pooping in a hole

Maybe it's the bucket showers

Or making your bed in a sketch place

Bus terminals, airport floors, bamboo huts, dirt floors. . You know how we do

Bedding down with bugs an all

I've become a man of sorrows acquainted with grief

I've become a man of joy acquainted with peace\

Everyday invites me on an adventure not just a mission trip

It's not a trip where He sends a rigid itinerary, He simply invites me.

God simply ask what it is He's made me to love, what it is that captures my attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of my soul to experience the richness of the world He made, and then leaning over me He whispers, “let's go do that together!”

Most great adventures work that way. You don't plan them, you don't wait to get all the details right. You just go and do them.

With this adventure, this World Race I'm learning to RSVP His invitations, and go after the things He's made me love. It's not all planned out for me either, and that's where most people get too nervous to take the next step. We get nervous to take that plunge. But know this: when Jesus invites us on an adventure, He shapes who we become with what happens along the way.

A couple of other things happen when we say yes to His invitations to participate with Him in life. Obstacles that seem insurmountable aren't. Impediments that we believe disqualify us don't. When we show up to participate with Jesus in in “doing life” we're participating with the very One who created Life. He simply asks us how we are, a lot like my friend asked, and then He invites us to get better with Him.

So here I am month 10. Getting better with Him. Saying yes everyday to doing life with Him.

Loving & Living

Truly & Fully

Ps: If you haven't already read it, please read Love Does by Bob Goff. This book inspired this blog, and also my life. This book is a book that dives deeper into what little I hit on in my blog- living a life of invitation, truly loving, fully living. It dives into what love does, not just what it is. Love that is not just words “I love you”, but love that is a verb, an action.