Sorry it's taken so long for me to update, De... De...
So, I moved into the new house. It's incredible; no 25 almost 26 year old guy should have a house with this much swagger.
At my new house I have a "Welcome" rug at the front door... with a tree on it... huge surprise, I know.
Go with me on this, it's gonna start pretty hokey... My "Welcome" mat at my house with the tree on it got me to thinking about how welcoming a tree can really be (Told ya it was gonna be hokey at the beginning).
Have you ever looked into the woods, I mean really looked? Out my giant sliding glass door in the living room is nothing but trees. Since my house is on a hill, the door has a small deck and stairs off the house. This makes my line of sight much higher. I don't see the bottoms of the trees or the leaf covered ground; just trees.
When I look out the window, all I can think is those trees are challenging me to adventure, calling me to something more and inviting me to discover. Whether it's the birds flying to their nests or the squirrels jumping from branch to branch, I do not know; what I do know is that I wanna' be out there with them!
My yard is very small, but is covered in sod. There is this distinct line drawn: one side is SOD and the other side is TREES. The sod is where my property ends; the trees are where someone else's property begins. My yard is safe, kept, pretty and easy; those woods are dangerous, unkept, unorganized and definitely challenging.
YHWH never called us to a life of safety. C.S. Lewis said in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe of Aslan (a representation of Christ), "He's a lion! Of course he isn't tame! But he is good... and he is the king!" Jesus was not safe! He challenged the established order, he broke the "law," he destroyed peoples' thoughts of the status quo! Stuart Fuller said, "He looked like a terrorist;" I responded with, "Because He was!"
Those people who live life to the fullest and try to live in the fullness of Christ, are like the woods outside my house. They welcome us to a dangerous world. We are called to be a part of something more! We are told in Scripture that Christ came to give us life, MORE ABUNDANTLY! Why are we so satisfied with surviving, when Christ gave us the ability to truly LIVE!
Go find something that makes you feel alive; hiking, driving, cutting grass, talking with friends, drinking coffee with Burtney Reid, hanging out with college guys until 5:00 AM, etc. In those moments, when you truly feel alive, you are tapping into the spiritual world, if just for a second. In those moments you are closer to YHWH then you'll ever know!
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