Long Live Play Dates!

When people gasp about our seemingly impractical move to Los Angeles, the following verses ring in my head.

“The spacious free life is from God, it is protected and safe.” Psalm 37:30 MSG

“An undisciplined, self-willed life is puny; an obedient God-willed life is spacious.” Proverbs 15:32 MSG

Reaching for a spacious life, rather than settling for status quo is what makes me come alive. This is the faith road that like Abraham, many have pioneered before me.

When we buy into an undisciplined, fear led life that has us scrambling for crumbs, we live anchored to the immediate, overlooking the possibilities that may be available beyond our sight. Faith absolutely requires discipline and intention to step out into the unknown, beyond what we can see. Fear does not.

Have you looked around and noticed that there is a whole lot of settling going on, producing puny life, not spacious life? Where have you settled for the familiarity, status quo, or comfortable living, rather than the spacious wide-opened-God-vamped life?

One ingredient that will keep us from stagnating into a comfy cul-de-sac mentality is the notion of living life as a play date! What better way to handle joy killers, naysayers, and even adversity than to find a sense of adventure hidden in the mix of every situation.

A person that looks for adventure in every circumstance is a person living a spacious life, and one who is enjoying the ride, no matter what the ride involves. Are you living life like a play date, or are you more comfortable with the puny life?