"Every great story has its battles, and every great story is filed with adventure. This is why we love fairy tales, romances, epics, histories, westerns, biographies--any story worth its telling. The Bible is absolutely rife with this sort of drama. We come to love the hero and heroine because they rise up to face all that the story requires of them. This is deep in the human race; the longing was given to us on the day of our Creation.
After God fashioned this dazzling earth, he gave it to us. Which is a bit like giving your fifteen year old the keys to a Maserati. But, he has his ways of doing things. When God gave us the earth, he also gave us all of the adventures that lay ahead. No one had yet climbed a mountain, or sailed the sea. No one had yet written a song or a novel. No one had yet discovered that strawberries make wonderful jam. God has 'hidden' joys innumerable in the earth he gave us, like Easter eggs waiting to be found in tall grass. Someone will figure out you can milk the cow, and if you let the milk sit you can skim cream off the top, and someone else will discover that the cream goes wonderfully in coffee.
The earth is rigged for adventure, like a sailboat. And our hearts have adventure written deep within, like sailors hear the call of the sea."
excerpt from Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge
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This is good... oh so true for sure :)
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