Are you ready? Because I am not! I am not the adventurous type. I feel safe when I know where I am going and what I am doing. I like to be prepared. I like to plan. It’s hard to plan when you don’t know where you are going or what you will be doing. So, I know I will need faith. I have that. But do I have adventurous faith?

Ehhhh….mmmmm….ahhhhh…..

Not really. I have no desire to get on a rollercoaster. I don’t want to go into a tropical jungle. I don’t want to wrestle alligators. As long as we are not jumping out of airplanes parachuting into the desert, I probably can handle it. But that is what my spirit liken my adventure to; jumping out of an airplane and parachuting into an unknown place. I don’t know if it’s a desert. I don’t know if it’s a jungle. I don’t know if it’s a beach (God let it be a beach, with a condo, good food, good people, and good weather. Let it be luxury). And there I go, trying to control where I land and the details.

This is my journey. On this journey, my soul has a mission and my life has purpose. How will I step into this adventurous faith? Especially, when I am not the planner. When my family and friends come on vacation with me, they rarely worry about anything because they know I am planning things down to the letter with room for them to explore and they have the freedom to say no or yes to things on the itinerary. They know I will not be upset. They know it is something on there for all of us. And they are open to the NEW experiences.

But I must look at this with a different lense. God has the plans and the itinerary. Do I trust God on this adventure? I am accustomed to knowing much more than I do this time around. I must trust God in order to have faith on this adventure. Step one, depart. That is all I know. My heart is beating. My breath feels short. Anxiety rises. Breathe through it. How do I depart? In silence? As a lamb? As a lion? In a hurry? Calmly? I want to say something. Do I warn the people? Is my departure in itself a warning?

Step one, depart. Pack your adventurous faith and you will be provided with everything you need along the way.

Ohhhhhh!!! This is scary! I could be making a mistake. Or I could be learning. Would I ever lead my family and friends on a vacation with plans of destruction? Would I ever put them in compromising, life threatening situations? No. And God is way more in control than I am. So, here we go.

“Leave your country, your people, and the house of your father, and go to the land to which I will lead you.” Gen 12:1

I’m not leaving my country but I am sort of leaving my people and a place my father attends for church services. I am not exactly going to a land. But I am leaving the familiar for the unknown.

~Nikki