Why Christians could use a little adventure (Her.meneutics)

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I already started my day with an adventure: I was awakened before 4:30 a.m. by banging on our front window. This went on for a while before I sent my brave and gracious husband to go make sure it wasn't the sexual assaulter who's been roaming the neighborhood (and also reportedly caught, but, at 4:30 a.m., who really can be sure about these things?). It wasn't. It was somebody named Marisol, who wanted to know if "Michael who lives upstairs" was there. This was strange, since Michael Who Lives Upstairs ostensibly lives upstairs. But she very much wanted us to let him know she stopped by.

I left a note for Michael Who Lives Upstairs inside the front door to our apartment building, letting him know Marisol was here, and I really would like to hear this story. I hope he comes and shares it with me.

Then I thought, since I already was up, I'd be a real "Proverbs 31 Woman" and read today's Proverbs 31 devotional on Women Living Well "while it is still dark." (That's Proverbs 31:15-- see what I've learned from this study?) Instead, there was a note "Unglued" by Lisa TerKeurst is out today. So I clicked through to the "Unglued" website, which is where I ran into this:

"If this is the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a pretty good day."

Lysa has a pretty great Agent, if He's all but sending people to my front door, waking me up and telling me I ought to read her book. I downloaded the audiobook. That's how I "read" her last book, "Made to Crave," and it was a pretty great pep talk on my hours-long commute to work each day (read my review here on Lean Girls Club). The first time through, it inspired me to spend more time exercising and thinking about what I eat. The second time, at the start of the year, it inspired me to spend more time alone with God. In short, it inspired this whole blogging-freelancing adventure.

So there you have it: adventure. You can read more about adventure, rightly considered, in my post today for Christianity Today's Her.meneutics blog. If you live in the Chicago area, you also can buy a wedding dress with a pretty good story -- on Craigslist, naturally.

An adventure doesn’t have to mean sneaking onto a set or sending your husband up a tree with a spear or getting banned for life from Disneyland and somewhat inadvertently faking a doctorate degree like the guy who wrote his own obituary this week in The Salt Lake Tribune.

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered,” G.K.Chesterton writes in On Running after One’s Hat, as London was flooding and his Battersea neighborhood was “particularly favoured as a meeting of the waters."

The author was in the country at the time, and imagined his neighborhood as a “vision of Venice,” or, as “perfectly poetical” as an island. He imagined running after one’s hat in the wind was no more inconvenient than running after a ball during a game or pulling on a jammed drawer; no more tiresome than tug-of-war or pulling a lifeboat from the sea.

In this way, every day is an opportunity for adventure. Every day is an opportunity to hear the sometimes inaudible voice of God: To know Him better, to discern his will.

For the rest of the story, read Why Christians could use a little adventure (Her.meneutics).

To see (or buy!) the wedding dress that started it all, read my posting on Craigslist, Elegant wedding dress (with a story!) -- $200.

Also, congratulations, Obehi Janice! Random.org has picked you as the winner of my first-ever giveaway! I'll be in touch soon to get you my review copy of "Stress Point" by Sarah Francis Martin. To purchase "Stress Point," if you didn't win, visit Sarah's website.

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Photo credit: The front page today of Her.meneutics. Unglued.