My Girls

Tonight I had my little girls and every week I just fall more in love with them! I sat there tonight looking around the table wondering what was going on in their minds. I tried to remember what I went through back in 8th grade and I couldn't image the gorgeous, sweet girls looking at me being as grown up as I thought I was back then. It scared me to think of the challenges they face each day and it made me just want to get on my knees and pray for the strength that they will need in the years to come. Such amazing innocent hearts they have! They remind me how great life is and how great it is to trust people with your whole heart because you haven't had any reason not to.... oh if i could just approach life the way they do! Thank you Father for the blessings that these girls bring to my life!

"...I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to theadventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun...Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time...it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move intoan entirely new realm of experience.

You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances."

Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

I found this quote today and fell in love with it. It amazes me the desires God has placed in us as his created children for adventure, for joy, for purpose. Every human on earth craves each of these, and yet they cannot be fully complete without first going to our Creator for fulfillment. Isn't God so good to allow us to partake in this adventure, His joy, and a greater purpose than ourselves? What a privilege i want to be reminded of each day...