Living an exhilarating life
It’s a week of endings and beginnings. It started by ending the World Race for 100 racers. And we ended the week today with 130 racers being launched to the field in Fort Lauderdale.What a joy it is to watch young people find their voice and their place in the world. Joy wanted to get an M.A. in social work, buy instead decided to join Shannon in joining Uche in South Sudan.
For example, Roberto, Rachel, Tabi from our T-squad feel led to minister in Cambodia. And Pei Yee, Katherine and Sarah decided to join Teri on her traveling team.
The week was exhilarating and exhausting. A lot of things are that way. Football seasons begin with fanfare and finish with a tide of injuries.
The Civil War began with the Battle of Bull Run. People came out to watch it like you might watch a parade. Of course the war ended in exhaustion.
Life itself can be that way, beginning with the exhilaration of a birth and, when our bodies wear out, winding down in exhaustion. It’s not a bad cycle. I want to be used up when I go – the tread wearing out on my tires.
Too often, though, I see people feeling perpetually exhausted. Rode hard and hung up wet. It’s normal to feel tired, but to be perpetually wrung out is no way to live.
Better to seek a life rhythm that feels more natural. Yes, we need to rest, but more of us may also need to go looking for the experiences that exhilarate us. Usually they involve risk. Something that gets the adrenalin pumping.
Putting those racers on planes to go around the world does that for me. Along the way I know that they’re going to come alive and bring the kingdom. What does it for you?
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Spending a week at Searchlight at Adventures HQ with over 100 World Racers has exhilarated and exhausted me. Too many God stories to count but I lull myself to sleep on my last night trying to recount as many as possible. Thank you, Jesus, for Adventures in Missions!
Pops,
Thanks for encouraging us (sometimes forcing us kicking and screaming against our wills) to follow the dreams God’s placed in our hearts. It’s no small thing. 🙂
After this week I have two tired ankles but an exhilarated heart. What a great week at launch. I feel poured out and instantly refueled. Thank you for stubbornly pursuing me. What we get to do is a privilege beyond words.
Feeling alive and exhilarated in what I am doing is a unique kind of rest. Being happy and fulfilled eases the soul, and I find I need less “rest”.
talking about my passion seeing the LORD end sexual perversion on the earth.INTERCEDING for the ones at risk due to woundedness. Consider,almost every pedophile was molested themselves.I know this is my calling talking about things Ive had to stand against.The battle is his and its WON.
in CHRIST,
hugh