ADVENTURES

Reliving adventures through story telling.

This is where dad had his first try at flying a float airplane and nearly crashed it into the trees! No he was not alone.
Thankfully the instructor took over.

We are all unique and our stories influence those around us just like the stories Jesus told had the power to set us free to all be story tellers!

"Myths and stories create a map of the "world within the world" an inner train you negotiate  more through intuition, imagination, and indirect ways of knowing than through direct perception."  Gifts of the Dark Wood.

So why doesn't God speak to us today like he did in the past reading the sacred stories of scripture.  Yet we have all experienced times when we have changed direction for unknown reasons and then you end up being in the right place at the exact moment that you should be there.

There are moments when I meet someone on my walk that I know I took the right path at the right time.  No this is not earth changing but I always feel that each person I meet or talk to during the day is important and I can listen and learn.

Dad is not living some of the great stories that he has experienced in the past but we know that we have learnt that life is precious and everyone has a story to tell.  We relate because we have experienced similar adventures.

Thursday is a sale day at the drugstore dad and I went there again today.  We each had a small basket and things on our minds (me with my list) that we wanted to purchase.  It is a small enough store that dad usually is able to find me quickly.  Once his feet start to feel very painful it is time to leave.  When we arrived home we sat in the sunshine on the front porch and just enjoyed reading and dad doing his puzzles.

Friday dad has his fasting blood test which he has made an appointment for at the blood clinic.  They have a new way of doing things but the atmosphere is not the same friendly one it used to be.  While he is there I will make a lot of noise catching up on my vacuuming.

A authentic leap of faith that may be life changing is often taking each day step by step so that in looking back we can see the pattern of our journey that has taken us to where we are right this moment.  It often does not seem like a leap but there are times when our emptiness an be filled with joy by the news that others tell us.