Last summer I took the most significant road trip of my life. It was a trip into the wilderness in which I was trying to get away from myself to be alone. During this journey I learned who God was all over again. I gained confidence by being bold in my time in Oregon. The greatest lesson that I learned on that trip was that I never wanted to live my life again asking the question “What if?”
At the end of last summer I read a book called Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell that changed me in so many ways. It gave me a new perspective and rejuvinated me. In his book, specifically Movement Four: Tassels, I underlined the following:
“This thing inside of me was so strong that I had to act on it. Can you relate to this feeling? That sense that there is someone deep in the fiber of your being that you have to do, and if you don’t do it, you will be violating something…or somebody?
Better to try and fail, because at least you are being true to yourself.
And the worst thing would be to live wondering. What if?”
Next to my underlined sentences I scribbled “Remember Oregon”.
Almost one year later, after some major identity reconstruction, God is still using these words to speak to me, even more so grasping a hold of me…
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And because I've read Velvet Elvis, which you very well know. I continue to re-read chapters out of that book almost everyday. Rob Bell is brilliant, and with so much meaning in what he says. It is true, and how I can see that book could change lives, it does so for me everytime I read it.
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