Nearly 25...

In a few days I will reach the birthday that officially marks I am an adult. If I had a car to have insurance on, the rate would go down. I will be able to rent cars and I will be firmly planted in my Mid-20’s.
Last night watching the full moon move across the sky as the city began to sleep, I started to think back and wonder at the events that have the shaped the man that I am and the one I am becoming.

Here are some of the Highlights….
I have traveled in 14 countries, on 5 continents, seen the worlds 3 largest mountain chains and three largest rivers. I have built houses in Mexico, furniture in Chile, wheel chair ramps in Arkansas, and dug the foundations for a meeting place of fellow believers in Nepal. I have used music to speak truth and bring smiles to orphans of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, I have introduced men in prison in New Mexico to my Eternal Creator, had deep conversations with new friends in the “Coffee shops” of the red light district in Amsterdam, and I have worshiped my Creator on the holiest of all Hindu Sights. I have discipled students through intense life transitions, taught kids to hammer their first nail, heard incredible stories from grey haired wise men all over the world, caught fish in countries most of my friends don’t know exist, watched the sunrise over mountains reaching past 27,000ft, I have been affected by the actions of bombers and gunmen, I have held abandoned babies, taught at retreats and summer camps, I’ve been made a Godfather, walked with friends as they entered life as married men, Listened to hundreds of my fathers Sermons, hit a homerun, hunted a trophy buck, lived in a tent for a couple of months, had hair to my shoulders and a Mohawk, learned life and chess lessons from homeless, played rock and roll concerts in foreign countries, led hundreds in time of praise, reenacted battles of the Civil War to remind people of the past so we may never fight that way again, walked the streets of Afg*anistan, I have pursued truth, relationship and adventure anywhere, and everywhere possible. I have a love of finding beauty in the world around. I have a passion for seeing what is true, and a desire to communicate that to whoever will engage in conversation with me. Normal is a word that has vastly different meaning to me now than it did a few years ago. My friends are spread out across the planet. Anywhere I haven’t visited, I want to. Any one that doesn’t know the truth, that can’t see beauty, I want to help them do so.
What’s next…? More of the same. I am just getting started, my dreams are continually growing and my realization of how big God is with them. The intricacies of his character are always being revealed in new ways as I see him in the eyes of the broken and suffering. Life Goals? Seek truth, speak truth, Live Unashamed, confront fear, and walk with my ear tuned to the gentle whisper of my eternal creator, willing to do whatever he asks.
It’s been a good quarter century, here is to the rest of it…