My Adventure

Since the beginning of the summer, I craved adventure. 

Over the summer, I went to North Carolina and lived in the mountains for a week [oh, my heart...it was amazing], I "hiked" in Florida [totally just walking up little hills], worked, and got completely burnt out. 

There was definitely adventure in there, but to me, I felt as if it only occurred when I was away from my routine life. 

The beginning of the fall semester, I craved adventure even more. My friends were leaving to go do long-term missions, or they were leaving to go to school away from Central Florida, or they were just doing exciting stuff around here. 

I didn't feel as if I was getting to do any of that. 

However, a wise person [Amber Lord, I'm calling you out ;) ] once told me, "this is your adventure", as I cried to her in the church bathroom, overwhelmed with the anticipation of starting my senior year of college. 

I never looked at my life in that way. Ya, I'm just going to school, but my senior year is something I've never experienced until now. It's my adventure. 

I may be working the other half of the time, but everything that I get to do, that's my adventure. 

I may still be living at home, but I'm experiencing new things. That's my adventure.

This life that God is building around me right now, that is my adventure.

It may not come in the form that I wanted, let alone expected, but it is still an adventure.

My adventure.

Everyone else is experiencing other things, because that's what God has given them to experience. This is what God wants me to experience though.

I'm a lot more ok with that now. 

At first, I just felt like everyone was going on in life without me, and that I was just staying still in the typical college student's life. 

That is not the case. 

I am double majoring - not everyone does that.

I am working a dream job - definitely not everyone does that.

I have a family who grows closer with every event in life - that's not the norm nowadays.

I have a community that invests in me and strives to point me to Christ continuously - I pray everyone has the opportunity to be a part of that.

Most of all, I have a Savior that refuses to abandon me. That's insane. And not only does he refuse to abandon me, He is constantly stretching me and growing me to be more like Him. 

That is an adventure in itself. 

What I'm trying to get at is this: You don't have to go away and do something crazy to have an adventure. The life that you're living is just that. 

This is what adventure means

- a risky undertaking of unknown outcome

- an exciting event or course of events

- experience; venture 

This life is literally full of adventures. It is full of uncertainty and risk, and you have the choice whether you're going to see that it's worth the risk, or let all these exciting ventures pass you by.

It's up to you to take it as an adventure or not.

I suggest you do - it's a lot more fun that way.