content

Sometimes i just get to wanting adventure and to get out and
see all those great and amazing things that I've read of.
It makes it worse when i read phrases like the "the moon over the badlands."
That just conjures up in my mind this huge
vision of laying on my back on a huge prairie with nothing but me,
God, and the stars above me. There would be miraculous
quiet there and the whisper of the wind would carry rest and
adventure all in one breath. The aching of a heart that loves to wander
is definitely mine.

I want to feel the cool breeze that wafted about in Eilat as i
walked along the boardwalk and lay in the sand listening to the
strains of music from a nearby bar and the voices of my friends
discussing everything from relationships to music to various
types of dancing
as my heart was content as we also talked about the Lord.
Then there was the cool water that i stuck my toes in
and the next day snorkeled in.
There is little like a memory where everything from the smells
to the sounds to the very feeling of the wind against your skin
comes back. And the lights on the water
glimmered like nothing I'd ever seen before.

Then there are those days of hiking through the
woods around Baniass and the river Dan where the
foliage was lush and heavy with the rain that
just kept falling. It fell on my face and i loved it,
walking where jesus walked, as the rain He sent me fell.
And the roaring of the river as
it rushed on toward the waterfall was powerful
and i knew that He had made it all. There were so many
shades of green that if it were a less peaceful
color it would have been almost too much for sight.
But as it was there was rest and it was beautiful.

Caedmon's Call has a line "Lord, all the places you have placed us."
Sometimes it's hard to be where you're placed,
but it's the best for sure. God will get His glory whether or not
we are "happy" with where He puts us,
It would be utterly stupid to think that somehow
something we do could mess up His plans.
How humbling that we are in His plan at all, that He lets people
who are lower than low, that care not for Him
and His glory, serve Him and even have the strength to
draw another breath. The discontent that I feel, does spring
from an adventurous heart that is a gift from my God,
but also from a heart that does not trust my God with where I'm at.
How foolish am I. The adventure is living
a life in His love and serving Him with all that we are.
Then He takes us all over the place to spread His glory.

It's the only life worthwhile. Like Rich Mullins says:

Save me from those things That might distract me Please take them away and purify my heart I don't want to lose the eternal for The things that are passing 'Cause what will I have when the world is gone If it isn't for the love that goes on and on with. My one thing, You're my one thing And the pure in heart shall see God.

God is greater than my heart.