My friend, Trey Hicks, just sent me a great article titled The Squirrel’s Dream by FW Boreham. If you haven’t read any of Boreham’s stuff you need to. Here is a link to some reccommended readings on Trey’s site.

Boreham talks about the spirit of adventure in all of us and the way God wants to redeem that adventurous instinct for His purposes. I love Psalm 45:1: “The heart is stirred by a noble theme.” I think we all have an adventure gene. And it finds it’s ultimate fulfillment in seeking God. Heaven is going to be an eternal adventure.

Boreham also cites something G.K. Chesterton wrote in The Everlasting Man. Chesterton says life is a great game of noughts and crosses. The nought (circle) represents the basic monotony of life. Unless something interrupts us we go around and around in circles almost like the Israelites in the wilderness. To play the game of life correctly you must put the cross inside the nought and the four extremities of the cross will pierce the nought at four points shattering the monotony of life forever.

I love that image and concept.

Jesus came to destroy monotony.

Never a dull moment when you’re following in Christ’s footsteps!