I feel like Skydiving is a cheap thrill, especially if it involves skydiving with cars.
A temporary experience of fulfillment. Excitement and danger converge and well up within us a sense of being "fully alive."
Similar to many commercials on TV.
A couple weeks ago I was sitting and watching TV. There was a commercial about a girl who got a new pair of jeans, and instantly she was happy. She started dancing like a fully alive person. She danced on chairs and you could tell she was happy.
"If only I get those jeans, an overwhelming sense of joy and excitement will well up out of me and I'll burst apart, right?"
We are seeking things that don't fulfill and amidst this realization we still intensely seek after them.
A band named "The Lighthouse and the Whaler" have a song called "Burst Apart."
"The journey is worth your life..."Since first hearing this song, this lyric has mulled around in my head. I can't stop thinking about how essential finding a "journey worth your life" is. Especially to finding fulfillment, meaning and purpose.
It would be disappointing if becoming "fully alive" was as easy as purchasing jeans or skydiving in some remote village.
Our journeys must be better than that. We must be willing to give our lives to them.
What journey is worth our life?
Our life is one of our most precious gifts.
What if our ultimate purpose and meaning can be found amidst an orchestrated story with a Creator? Where we realize, our story, our life is but a small piece of a grand scheme.
What if our life, our meaning, our story is more than ourselves, but rather about something bigger?
The Awake My Sole journey was based out of striving after Jesus. It's crazy to think the running & speaking portion of the yearlong journey is finished, however the journey overall journey has only begun.
Whether you are an "extreme-thrill-seeking-sports-athlete" jumping out of planes or a business woman with a routine job, you can fully be alive amidst striving after something bigger.
Ultimately I know my life is not my own, but God's, and I attempt daily to be aware of the journey I am on.
Is the journey you are on worth your life?
