I remember one time when I was a little kid, I was getting ready for bed and my dad came into my room and said,"Come on, get your jacket. I want to show you something." I went outside, still in my pajamas and climbed into his big truck. We drove around on all these back roads in the pitch black night for what felt like forever.
Eventually we came to a stop on the side of an old unpopular road and got out. We climbed into the bed of the truck shivering a bit, and thats when my dad took in a deep breath and said, "This is my spot. I come here most nights to think. I like that you can see all the different cities and stars. It makes all the big problems fade away a bit, because you start to feel so small." I took those moments of listening and tried to take in all that was around me, I wanted to remember that exact moment, that exact spot. I looked at all the different lights of the towns in the distance and looked up to see the sky covered in a blanket of a billion stars. On that cold dark night, I fell in love with adventure and with the idea of finding new places, I wanted to go and see everything. I fell asleep on the drive home that night trying to remember my dads "spot", dreaming about all the stars.
I LOVE adventures, I love going to new places, and I love seeing new things. I love the spontaneous road trips late at night where you drive on back roads in the middle of nowhere hoping to find something. I love spontaneous road trips where you play your favorite music as loud as it goes, and search for coffee. I love camping in the middle of the woods where you can't hear any cars and you seem to forget that all the world is still out there. It excites me, the possibility of all the new things I could see keeps me going. The people I'm with to experience all of these things encourage me. The adventure keeps me curious and seeking more.
I think adventure is important because it teaches us so much! It teaches us how to be a bit more risky with our lives, it teaches us how to be bold and creative and it teaches us to be more outgoing. And most importantly, it teaches us how to admire God's beautiful creation that is around us, the world is too beautiful to go unnoticed! It teaches us how to appreciate every moment in our lives as they come and go so fast.
I think we need to be a little bit more adventurous. We need to go on more late night drives just to look at stars, we need to go on more spontaneous road trips without our cellphones. We need to go cliff jumping more (and not get parasites) and we need to be pushed so far outside our comfort zones we cant even remember what we used to be afraid of. We need to find what makes us wake up in the mornings. We need to find what excites us.
We need to go find our "spot."
