getting there.

“While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.”

-reepicheep

The adventures met on woodward. My adventure in raising my son who won’t fall alseep and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the 5th book in the narnia series. Last night Kathryn and I set sail in the phantom (my chevy trailblazer) to sail for the end of woodward, listening to a radio drama of the Dawn Treader. I wont give away where it ends, although, I am sure you can reach it with one tank of gas and some small rations. 

Dawn Treader was a fantastic adventure, not sure where this would all end, we anxiously kept on listening to Capsian, Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and of course Reepicheep.

Reepicheep is the mot valiant Narnian that lives. He is also a mouse. He is always ready to fight to the death, charge in first, risk his life for honor and Aslan.

As the end draws near it is clear the one person has to sail to the end and stay there to break a curse. The above quote is the response of Reepicheep. Read it again. Where else will a mouse give you chills because of his courage and honor?

Is there something in you that says, “I have to get there!”?  Anything at all? Do you lay awake at night, determined to finish the race? Are you troubled by the others who are giving it all up and settling for less? What are you doing to get there? How far will you go? OR Have you gone far enough? Are things pretty good? Are you comfortable with your version? Do people just not understand “How you are?”

I am asking myself not new questions, but the old ones. 

I want honor and hope.

I want to get there.

And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. Don’t drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. Hebrews 6.11-12

For Aslan. (Jesus Christ) This is not a tame lion

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ability

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” -s.k.

I fall for it. I trust in myself. NO Really, I do. I start off right. I am humbly and incredibly aware that by myself I am capable of nothing and with Christ anything is possible, but somewhere along the line I get suckered into thinking I can do it on my own. I think about the possibilities of what I could do or what I could become. Are these crazy thoughts. Shall I pursue the depths of all that I am capable? No I should pursue Christ! But how can I answer this longing to become all that God wants for me and at the same time not allow the trap of ability and my own press release sidetrack the mission?How then do we define success?

“Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your might; but trust not in the least in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing of God; but work, at the same time, with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on all the days of your life. The result will surely be, abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed…” -George Mueller

Fantastic.

This is our way of life.

Are you In?

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