S&U Excerpt - Scary is Fun

Surrendered & Untamed, A Field Guide for the Vagabond Believer

In this video I tell a story that is also in the book. Its a story that illustrates trusting God in risk taking fashion. I am convinced that life for the believer is about collecting faith stories.



"...My little girl beat the diving board. Yes, it was too scary and too high, but she did it anyway. She jumped—for herself, for me, for the story. Years later, most of that vacation has faded from her memory, but the story of the diving board lives on. And “scary is fun” has become a household phrase....If she had not jumped, we both would have missed out. But she did jump and now she owns that story. She owns that experience. And the diving board no longer controls her fear..."

"...How do we find wild God stories? One word: experience. I believe we were created for experience—to taste and touch, to search and discover. Why else does a thirteen-month-old experience such joy in the discovery of a light switch or bubbles? OK, I get bubbles. Why is it that I find joy at the top of a mountain? And why did God leave it to Adam to name the animals? God created them, it seems He would be the best suited to name them. Yet from the beginning, God set up the universe with all of its wonders and mysteries for our discovery, for our pleasure. Our relationship with God works the same way. We have been invited to discover Him and experience His heart until we begin to see, hear, and feel as He does . . . and we find ourselves doing it for the story, our story, His story..."

Excerpts taken from Chapter Five, Do It For The Story