I've always been gripped by Helen Keller's stirring quote: "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Here was a woman who was blind and deaf all her life and yet she was capable of having such a positive attitude about life. You have to wonder what she would have accomplished without her handicaps.
Yet, that's where I come back to myself. Is life really a daring adventure? Why do I find myself resisting the very essence of what an adventure would be like?
Here was a woman who was blind and deaf all her life and yet she was capable of having such a positive attitude about life. You have to wonder what she would have accomplished without her handicaps.
Yet, that's where I come back to myself. Is life really a daring adventure? Why do I find myself resisting the very essence of what an adventure would be like?
Imagine, for example, an Indiana Jones movie with no boulders about to crush him, no car chases, no gun fights, no cliffs, no snakes! The movie would be flat, uninteresting -- boring. And yet, we fail to recognize the metaphor for life.
We want life to be a day at the beach, when the daring adventure is actually escaping the mine that's about to collapse. We want to coast. The adventure is in the chase.
You can't have it both ways. You want a daring adventure? Embrace the difficulties. There you will find God's hand of protection and wisdom to prevail. By prevailing, you'll be prepared for the next dangerous mission and the next.
Soon, you'll have your own daring adventure.
We want life to be a day at the beach, when the daring adventure is actually escaping the mine that's about to collapse. We want to coast. The adventure is in the chase.
You can't have it both ways. You want a daring adventure? Embrace the difficulties. There you will find God's hand of protection and wisdom to prevail. By prevailing, you'll be prepared for the next dangerous mission and the next.
Soon, you'll have your own daring adventure.
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