The Explorer.

:: If you're going to create the life of your dreams, you have to once again choose to explore. You need to make it a life mandate to learn everything and anything you need to know to turn your dreams into reality. You have to start making yourself flexible and pliable again, because if you stop learning, you will stop growing and will never create a life beyond the one you have right now...

When you are called out by God, you have to take on a learning mode that recognizes you are called by God to explore unknown territories and go to uncertain environments. To some of you, God is literally saying, You need to leave your country, your relatives, your house and go to a place you've never known if you are going to live the life of your dreams...

I wonder if some of you need to move to Tibet or maybe India or South America. Or maybe you need to find a way to deal with the issue of AIDS in Africa. Is it possible that to create the life of your dreams, you need to get up and leave what you know and relinquish the security of what you have in order to discover what you only see in your imagination? Remember, there is always a hero within you waiting to be awakened--that hero is the explorer. ::

-- Erwin McManus

I've been reading through Erwin's newest book, Wide Awake, as well as diving deeper into the text through Erwin's Sunday services (he's doing an eight week series on the book) and a weekly small group gathering. The content with the book has resonated with me and this time of my life so much. I have been blessed in insane ways and I am so excited to explore the next step in my life journey so that I am fully able to live in dreams awake.