A Few of My Favorite Things
The Adventure of a Side Road
One of my favorite things is spontaneous adventures or road trips that aren’t mapped out and take you to places you never would have even imagined going to. I love the old back roads we have around here. When I have nothing to do (and usually no gas) I will drive until I find a familiar road or until I get lost.
Sometimes when you don’t know where you’re headed, it can be scary and intimidating, but also full of excitement and new thrills. Anticipating what’s around the next curve or which direction to go when you hit a fork in the road is all part of the adventure. Maybe you get lost or take a drastically wrong turn, but sooner or later you’ll find your way back to the right road and keep on.
Many of us don’t know what the future holds; where we’ll go to college, what friends we’ll make, where we’ll live, but that’s ok. There’s only one Person who does. We’re going to have to jump out on a limb now and again and go on some crazy adventures to find out where He’s leading us. Sure it might be the kind of scary that could cause you to wet your pants or the kind of excitement that ignites you, but He has it all mapped out. You may not always go the route He has marked, but He will bring you back to it somehow. Besides, what’s life without a little adventure thrown in?
-Josie L.
Taken from the August issue, 2008.
