Are You Living Your Life in a Way that is Worth Telling Stories About?

from pages 56-57 of In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day...

"So here is my question: Are you living your life in a way that is worth telling stories about?

Maybe it is time to quit running and time to start chasing. Try something new. Take some risks. Start doing some things that are worth recounting in jaw-dropping detail. I think we owe it to our kids and grandkids. Imagine the bedtime stories Benaiah must have told his children. I can hear his wife monitoring him. Remember Benaiah, they're only four and five years old. Keep it G.

Too many of us pray as if God's primary objective is to keep us from getting scared. But the goal of life is not the elimination of fear. The goal is to muster the moral courage to chase lions.

I'm certainly not suggesting that you jump a fence at your local zoo. Please heed the warning sign on the outside of the lion cage. But I'm concerned that the church has turned into a bunker where we seek shelter when we're actually called to storm the gates of hell. Does that sound safe? I can't imagine a more daring or dangerous mission.

If the truth be told, the alternative to fear is boredom. And boredom isn't just boring. Boredom is inexcusable. Soren Kierkegaard went so far as to say that 'boredom is the root of all evil' because it means we're refusing to be who God made us to be. If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following the footsteps of Christ.

At some point in your life you have to make a choice between fear and boredom.
Lion chasers choose fear."