What Do You Want?

What a question.

It's not easy really answering that question. Not just what do you want to eat, or what do you want to go buy yourself. I mean, what do you desire? During certain quiet times - when some of the noise shuts down and you are able to just be...what does your heart call out to you?

You know what I'm referring to - and it scares you. If you don't know, then you're not listening close enough, and you never have. The world tells us to shut out desire. To work at a job that will pay us a lot of money, so that we can build up our IRA's and our portfolios and plan every little step along the way. Meanwhile - we kill ourselves. We kill our desire, we kill the things inside of us that make us come alive. We try to plan out everything that will happen along the way. Well, it doesn't take much for God, Satan, chance - whatever you wanna call it - to throw those plans out the window.

We are not guaranteed anything. So what do you want? Do you want to save lives? Do you want to teach children? Do you want to bring Christianity to a lost world, or pursue knowledge until all is found?

Me...I want a lot. My heart calls to me in ways that I cannot describe. And my journey across Europe awoke some things that I did not even know where there. I want to travel. I want to see as much of the world as I can. I want to learn about different cultures and their histories. I want to study architecture and design buildings. But I also want to build those buildings. I want the materials in my hands and to feel the purity of doing something with just the tools God gave me. I want to love like no one's ever loved before. I want to take chances and risks and dare greatly. For it is the ones who dare greatly who are greatly rewarded.

If you live in that dark place of safety and isolation - then you will not know the riches of this world. I dare you to live otherwise.

So...what is it that you want?