Thursday Adventures

Thursdays were the day. The day my Grammy would take my siblings and I to the public square. It was a big adventure for a kid. It meant riding the bus and getting to pull the cord above our seats when it was our stop. I meant lunch at Wendy's and a walk through Boscov's department store. It meant playing on the playground in the middle of the square and running through the water sprinklers on hot summer days. It meant buying fun things from the vendors when the craft fair was in town. Thursdays. What a very special day of the week. 

And you would never hear us kids turn down the opportunity from week to week. There was never a Thursday we didn't want to go. We never dismissed the idea simply for the reason that we had already been there. No way! Every time we went it was different. Different weather meant different activities. Different things on Grammy's list to buy meant different stores. Different events happening in the town square meant an entirely different kind of trip! It was especially wonderful when they had their bandstand set up with live music for the day. Those were my favorite days. 

Now that I'm grown, and Grammy has passed on into heaven, I don't have those opportunities on Thursdays. But like so many other things in my life, it has become a picture, an example, for me in my walk with God. See, everyday is an adventure when you know God. There has never, in all my 30 years of relationship with Him, been two days that have every been the same with Him. Even if I were to read the same scripture each day and walk through the same routine of school or work, every single day would still look different. Why? Because I have a living relationship with God. He is not a statue that I interact with or a fairytale figure like an imaginary friend in my head. He is real. And He is very interesting! He loves adventures and is always so eager to show me something new and talk to me about different things everyday. 

I remind myself of this on days I don't feel like coming to Him, when I'm stuck in my own sin or rut or the yuck of life. (Though those should be the days I especially run to Him!) I have to tell myself on those days, "Everyday is a new adventure! Don't let anything get in your way!" 

And because everyday is different, I can never say, "Well, I went there already. I saw all that could be seen." Haha! No way! Everyday with God is different! New adventures. New conversations to have with Him. New revelations. New stories He wants to tell us and more ways He wants to show His great love to us! And ya know what? We don't even have to wait until Thursday. Nope. We don't even have to wait until Thursday. :)

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