I picked the picture at the top of this blog because it suggests adventure. There on the picture before you is the open sea suggesting unending exploration. To the right is a land mass that looks untouched, uncharted, undiscovered.
I have been a Christian all my life, but it wasn’t until I was in college during the “Jesus Freak” years that I started to make Christianity my own. I was a football player so I had not bought into the hippie/drug scene and since the Jesus Movement was closly aligned with all of that, it didn’t attract me. But I had always loved God and with all the talk about God and the Bible back then, I had to look closer.
Instead of looking to my Grandfather (a Methodist Minister) or the church we went to in our hometown, I started looking for myself. I started actually reading the Bible and asking questions. That started the qwest which has had it’s ups and downs but always moving forward, always an adventure.
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When I look at the picture of the ocean in the header, I am reminded of a quote from Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1520)
“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore…unlike the mediocre, the intrepid (courageous, fearless) spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible..it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors..to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unkown.”
God’s best to you on our adventure,
Duke Clarke
