A little inspiration
So I have been reading Velvet Elvis, by Rob Bell, and today I came across something that was pretty inspiring to me. Rob was talking about church planting, and some of the questions people ask about it. Here is the passage from his book:
“People who are starting churches, or want to someday, often ask me when I knew it was time to do it. And I actually have a coherent answer: I knew it was time when I no longer cared if it was ‘successful’.”
OK so what was so amazing about that passage to me was it completely identified the way I feel about this trip. Ever since Ryan and I talked about doing this, I have had this overwhelming feeling that it just isn’t going to work. That we are totally going to fail, and it will be a colossal waste of time.
Well a few months ago, I had an epiphany, or at least I think that is what you would call it. Anyway, I realized that the trip being a success was not really my calling, my calling was to just try, and if I fail, at least I will know I gave it a shot. I would much rather tell my grandchildren, if I ever have any, “When I was young I tried to ride around the whole US on a motorcycle,” than tell them, “Yea I though about doing that.”
That has been such a relieving realization too, to be able to say, yea I might totally fail, and wuss out, but at least I will have given it a shot. Its funny too because as people hear about the trip they will see me and say, “Hey I heard you are going to do some cross country trip.” My response is always the same, “I am going to try.”
So to everyone out there that might ever read this, I can not promise you any type of success, in fact if we do succeed it will only be because God has totally blessed us. The only thing I can promise is that I am going to try.
