“The greatest adventures aren’t halfway around the world.”

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 ofa Lifetime (p. 18). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Mark then says, “They are often right across the street, down the hall, or in the seat next to you. You don’t have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn’t carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.”

I love that. I have lived two adventures this morning. One was in a Starbucks in Burbank where I talked with a young lady who shared the adventure of her life with me. She and her husband have just moved here from Baltimore, Maryland. It was a great time of sharing from our thoughts and our lives.

I then went to Aroma Coffee and Tea Co in Studio City. I started talking to a man from the east coast of Florida who was visiting his daughter and son-in-law. He shared with me the adventure of his life. We had a great time of sharing back and forth.

People have such interesting stories if we would just stop and ask questions and then listen. But the problem we have as adults is we have stopped asking questions and we miss out on so much.

Mark shared, “Writer Ralph B. Smith once made an observation that children ask roughly 125 questions per day and adults ask about 6 questions per day, so somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lose 119 questions per day. A child’s innate curiosity about life is instilled in them at birth by the One who longs to be discovered. The more questions they ask, the more they discover about the world around them. The more they discover about the world around them, the more they discover about the One who made them.”

Oh there is so much out there if we would just stop and ask. Mark also said, “If you want to get people interested in you, don’t try to be interesting. Show interest in them.”

I went on an adventure today. I made two new friends. I love it.

How’s your adventure going today?

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