We just make what seems to be a single isolated decision—“just this once”—not to follow our conviction. We know we should talk to that person, or go home early, or tell the truth when it hurts, but it’s just easier not to. We don’t want to ruffle any feathers or make anyone upset. We don’t want to step out of our comfort zone. But single decisions

maybe the healthiest way to form expectations is to expect less in the specific and more in the general. Just expect amazing scenery, without knowing what it will look like it. Don’t try to imagine it, just know it will come. That way, when it comes and it looks different than you expect, you won’t miss it. Expect a town like Deadwood, even if you

when we decide to go somewhere, we discover we can’t take it with us.

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” VICTOR E. FRANKL

You have to leave home to go on a journey, but you can’t leave home without having a home.

He was here, He was available, He was pursuing me.

realize He knows what I need even more than I do, and He is more generous than I ever imagined. Sometimes He even meets needs I didn’t know I had.

If we weren’t willing to let go of things we needed, we never would have gone on a trip. But if people weren’t willing to see our need and meet it, we never would have made it back home.

How much more in tune would we be with the twists and turns of our journey, and prepared to handle them with conviction and grace, if we didn’t think the “rules” were protecting us? We would have to pay close attention, exercise discernment, ask people to help. We’d have to let go of some rules that everyone else was following, and follow some that