Life is such a journey.
I look back on the past 3 years of my life with such awe and relief. I can’t believe that life has taken me to all the places I’ve been…I’m 25. I’ve been to 14 plus countries, I’ve seen the red light district in Mumbai, I’ve felt darkness that paralyzes like a stone, I’ve heard the wind blow through the pines in the mountains of Vietnam, I’ve watched the cottonwood seeds dance in the Colorado summer, I’ve prayed in slums, I’ve danced in churches, I’ve eaten at countless tables. I’ve done way more than I thought I ever would on my own.
That’s the beauty of my God. If you think you know how to live, he’s dreaming of more. The stars are the fringes of his garment. He is beyond anything we feel or think. I could have spent my whole life on the couch of life where I was most comfortable, and it would have saved me a lot of depressing moments.
But he wouldn’t let me.
When I didn’t think the treasure was worth the sail, I found myself on the seas, driven by discontentment…a hunger. I’m hungry for life. I’ll always be after it. I was designed to. And there are soooo many places that hold pools of it, but one fountain. He declares Himself as the fountain of LIFE.
I want that…
It’s why I’m at CGA. It doesn’t make sense to some people to walk the path I walk, but once you’ve tasted of true life you just get obsessed with it. “In Him was life…”
So I’ve been seeking. I’ve been chasing. I’ve learned that it’s only in His light within me do I see the world in true color and beauty. Such flowery language for a certain truth: seeking Him is better than finding anything else.
So I search…even if the searching hurts. The treasure is worth the sail.
