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“It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to insure the success of a journey resumed, and once all of that is completed He gently leans over and whispers, “How about another run?”

“Many adventurers would say that opportunity is something that you find as part of a relentless search, or that it’s something that an imagination unleashed shapes and creates. And while all of that sounds bold and wonderfully fearless, it’s my sense that opportunity is more that thing to which we’ve been called by something larger than ourselves, and less something that is a product of ourselves.”

“If the human spirit dreads anything, it is to finally arrive at some long fought for destination, and after celebrating the arrival to suddenly discover that there are no other roads that go forward from that place for there are no other destinations to go to. And it is out of the life-sustaining passion of the human spirit to be ever-achieving that God crafted beginnings and endings so that such a horrific reality will never be reality.”

“The old tire swing would hurl me out over the creek on one side of the oak tree, fling me up into blue skies on the other, and allow me to effortlessly soar over the ground that lay in-between. But to take such a glorious ride I had to trust the tree to hold me, and the rope to secure me. Yet much like life itself, I had to trust that the disappointment of missing such an exhilarating ride as this would cast the concerns of both tree and rope as the incidental risk required of any great journey. Otherwise, creek and sky and soaring between both would have been a hope of the old tire swing, but never a reality.”