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“Life brims with possibilities and is crammed with discovery.”

A thought by Mark Batterson, Richard Foth, and Susanna Foth Aughtmon (2015-04-28) from their book, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime (p. 21). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

I love to read.  I really do.  I look many times for a book that gives me good thoughts to share with you.  But when I found this book I knew it was for me.  It really quickens me inside.  I hope it does you too. 

Mark said, “The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they’d never done and go where they’d never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time. Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish theologian, went so far as to say, ‘Boredom is the root of all evil.’ Boredom isn’t just boring. It’s wrong.”  I really believe that and I want to challenge you to believe it too.

Now this is a thought by Dick.  He was a missionary kid in India and because of that he said, “Each vivid picture seems to shout one thing: I was made for an adventure. Somewhere in my DNA is a strand labeled ‘Foth Adventure.’ No doubt it’s a combination of genetics and those first encounters with decidedly different cultures, but I see life as a grand escapade. New opportunities and new friends are always just around the corner. Tomorrow’s outcome will be better than today’s. Life brims with possibilities and is crammed with discovery. So a trip around the sun can be 365 days of unabashed adventure.”

My father was an evangelist.  We went all over the US and Canada holding meetings in different churches.  I also lived as a child in West Virginia, California, Arizona, Ohio, and Michigan and I have been to 49 states.  So I understand what he is saying.

He then goes on to say, “I have come to believe that from the moment of conception, we are being formed with an adventure in mind. We were created to touch, taste, smell, see, and hear life. Our Creator has big plans for us. No settling for mediocrity. Rather, we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us from first squall to last drawn breath and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us. Whether our earliest memories are sailing the high seas in a steamship or walking into a kindergarten class by ourselves for the first time, the exploration of the world within us and around us is a drumbeat. And the beat goes on.”

Oh I hope and pray that you see that, “Boredom isn’t just boring.  It is wrong.”  No matter what age or location or circumstance, you have the God given opportunity to live life to its fullest.  That is what He built you for.  Let Jesus have your life.


So how does this thought make a difference in how you view your life today? 
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