Redefining the American Dream

When Ben and I talk about our "American Dream" it has nothing to do with owning a house, a white picket fence, or the perfect 2.5 kids.

We want a challenge. We want adventure. We want danger. In reading "Captivating" and "Wild at Heart" as well as several other books I have discovered that we are not meant to live this life of comfort and ease, but rather we are meant to live dangerously!

I worry about moving to Africa, not because I think that something will happen to me (my life is of no use to me if I am cautious with it) but because I worry about losing Ben, being raped, or having something to happen to my children. But if I let these things hold me back, if I let my fear restrict my passion then I am simply falling to the lies of this world! The lies that no one is worth the things that I have to sacrifice. My husband is not MINE, he was a gift given to me by God and really he is on loan to me while we are on this earth. My children are not my own, because as soon as the come out of me or are brought to me they belong back to their maker. So in looking at the people in my life in this manner I realize that I cannot keep them because as soon as I let them go I will truly live.