Living a life ...

worth telling stories about!  Pretty sure that got me last time I was reading In a Pit with a Lion... but it got me again this morning.  What a waste of the few days we're given on this earth to live a life bound by fear, comfort, or normalcy.  Even on the days when my exhaustion craves such days ... God often has other plans and I am so thankful He does.

I ran to Target last night on my way to meet some friends for dinner.  Made a last minute decision to go ahead and get as so I would be ready to head out this morning.  And so, I zipped into the gas station, gassed up, and headed out ... only THAT is the moment my battery breathed its last.  So, there I was 7:30 pm on a Friday night, stuck at a gas pump close to nothing.  Fortunately I was meeting Gavin ... so after 15 frantic minutes and 8 phone calls to him at the D Now where he couldn't hear his phone over the music, he came to my rescue with jumper cables and a plan.  We got to auto zone 30 minutes before they closed, got a new battery, met our friends for dinner ... and I am sooooo thankful that GOD let me get gas last night and a new battery where someone could help me ... not some random exit between here and Carrollton this morning.  What a good and gracious God. 

But back to a life worth telling stories about ... most of those stories have come out of the opportunities to serve Christ all over the world ... and I am so excited about students having those same story-telling experiences.  And I cannot wait to be part of that with some of them.  I've gotta get on the road, so this is shorter .... maybe I'll get back to it tomorrow after I come out of my sleep deprived coma.

For now, though ... thankful for the gift of story-worthy, God-made adventures ...
202. camping in Nicaragua for a week
203. riding a soviet-era train across Kazakhstan
204. riding horses through a river in Kazakhstan
205. climbing Mayan ruins
206. going on safari in Zimbabwe
207. marveling at Victoria Falls
208. snorkeling in Paamul
209. diagnosing TB in a little clinic in Nicaragua
210. carrying a little old woman into the stick and tarp clinic in a rural village in Nicaragua
211. seeing Dr. Denis see God in us in Peru
212. being stopped by the KGB/police in Kaz
213. weighing babies in scales hung in trees in Zambia
214. hearing the singing of a funeral procession in Zimba
215. wandering an old monestary in Moldova
216. weeping with a family in Moldova

Yep .... so many story-worthy adventures ...  more to come!