This week’s writing challenge is to write in the adventure
genre. I’m having a little trouble getting motivated to
come up with anything for it, however. Not feeling very
“adventuresome” today. I used to be an extremely
adventurous person. At one time, I’d probably have tried
anything ... at least once. In fact, there are very few things I
have not already at least tried.
I love to fly. I could spend days in/on the water. I love to play
music on a variety of wind instruments and I could dance
before the Lord for hours. The best way I know to spend my
free time, when I can afford to do so, is to drive up to the
mountains in southeast Oklahoma and hike around until it
gets dark. I love horseback riding and fishing, photography,
painting and many other forms of art. I suppose I can make
an adventure out of just about anything.
But my adventures have not all been as picturesque or
as peaceful. My foundation, now solid in Christ, has not
always been so. I came from a shaky foundation, one
marked with rage and disappointments and a
rather dysfunctional lifestyle. I could tell a
few stories that would raise the hair on
the back of your neck or bring you to
your knees in tears. But what’s the
purpose? The past is just that ... the
past.
I looked for anything and
everything to cover the
sadness and the shame and
the tragedies in my life. But
most things hurt more
than they helped and
I still had to wake up
with ME come dawn.
Even when I was not
alone, I found that
I was very alone.
And one day, a
day when I least
expected it, the
dawn came and I
woke up to a voice
as clear as though
someone
were
standing right next
to me: “Clean house.
You have company.” He’s been my
Guest of Honor ever since and my life since then, has been
a series of rather interesting adventures.
I have to admit that it’s not all been a bed of roses. As I dug
into the Word of God and found promises of healing and
restoration and salvation, the Words “I will never leave you
nor forsake you” took hold of my heart and they were the
same Words that would hold me up through tragedies yet
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