One of my favorite pastors and authors, Mark Batterson, has released his new book, Wild Goose Chase: Reclaiming the Adventure of Chasing God.
One of
the main reasons I like Mark's books is he puts forth very thought
provoking statements and questions that require action on my part. Mark is living a life of
adventure with God, so let's join him!
If any of the question below resonate with you, then Wild Goose Chase is a must read for you.
- Have you ever been stressed out trying to figure out God's will for your life.
- When you don't know where you are going, do you worry or think "this is an adventure."
- Is your life boring or are you ready for a breakthrough?
- Do you follow the Spirit or do you ask the Spirit to follow you?
- Are you trying to tame God because you want things to be predictable?
Lord, spare me from a mediocre life, make my life count for something!
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I have as we put our pursuit of God's will for our life first! Every decision you make should line up with this pursuit.
Check out the intro to the book below.
Summary:
Most of us have no idea where we’re going most of the time. Perfect.
“Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit–An Geadh-Glas, or ‘the Wild Goose.’ The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it’s like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something….
Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know
that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name:
Adventure.” --from the introduction.
You can purchase the book from any of the retailers listed below.
I was at camp all last week and it was such an amazing experience getting to be apart of facilitating life change in young people! One of the topics that arose during the week was putting down on paper a list of things you want in a significant other. While most of our young people aren't of age or have had enough life experience to really know what they should actually write down, I still believe this was an important part of what was conveyed during camp. Guess what else? I was totally convicted because until this point I've never done it!
That's not to say that I haven't thought about it carefully during the 23 years of my life. In all honesty it took me longer to find where I'd stored Microsoft word on my hard drive than it did to actually write down all the important points of the list. I think it's good though that I've finally put it down so that the next time I get twitter pated I can pull out the list and make a practical assessment of the object of my light headed joy. It's been several months now since that's happened fortunately.
I really think it has a lot to do with a contentment to be with God, rather than a lack of potential. I know several young woman that I'd like the opportunity to get to know better. But the fact is that I'm at peace over the whole subject, I'm not in any rush to mess with the place God has brought me to. I'm happy to be His! I'm not sharing the list because I think it falls into the category of TMI for most people that would stumble across this blog. If you are in fact planning on encouraging me to get to know someone, by all means ask me for the list and I'll let you have it.
If you're reading this and you haven't a clue what it means to be content with being single, let me just encourage you that for a long time I was right there. Almost 10 years to be honest. I'm finally allowing God to be number one in my life. I finally got my priorities on order, I've allowed myself to relinquish control, I trust Him with my whole life, including whether or not I get married. Trust Him!
I've been grounded from running. After Wednesday of last week my shins were real sore and Dr. Karen Pearson diagnosed me with shin splints. After consulting with Dr. Bill Davis and Dr. Kyle Davis, I believe Karen was right. So, Dr. Bill grounded me from running until my poor ol' shins are better. I really don't think I could run anyway. Just trying to power shop for groceries gets them "fired up". Good news is they are getting better and I do have an email in to an "expert" to see how I avoid this problem again. Since this is a new sport for me any info would be appreciated.
And behold the many faces of the Megster. LOL I crack myself up with my cornyness but I was just looking at my old blingee account and I thought these pics would help explain how far God has brought me.
This Vidio used to make me cry buckets...I tried so hard to be tough, but really I was just a pansy.
Here is the old object of my affections in all of his glory
These are happier times when I had no clue what was comeing
This is one I like to call the self-proclaimed Sex-goddess...It was taken in the mirror of an ampm bathroom and sent over myspace to Erik before we ever met..SMART hu?
This is a picture Erik took of me the night he litterally rolled me into bed after I had passed out drunk.
Had a fantastic weekend going over to eastern Washinton and doing one of my favorite things... getting out into the woods and hunting. What a trip. Great time with two good friends. We ended up seeing two nice bears but only got one. Nothing like having to raft across a river to go hunting. weather was good and blessed with a good harvest. Of course we saw the biggest buck I have ever seen in the wild when hunting season was not open. There was actually three big bucks standing with each other. The smallest out of the group was still bigger than any buck I have ever got. Those deer were only about twenty yards from us. It was really cool.
