If you have ever wanted to go to Ireland before and you have been playing with the idea in your head and never actually committed to it or really believed you were going to go. I want to challenge you to just go and do it. Start saving now. Do research and planning. Get your self excited. LET yourself be excited about a future trip that you are saving for. Too many of us just say "I would love to see the world but I will when I am older." If you keep pushing it back it will never happen. Traveling not only changes your view on the world, It shows you how different your life is from others. It opens your eyes to new ideas and just plain gets your heart pounding. Even if it is not Ireland and it is just a place you have wanted to go to your whole life just 500 miles from you. Set a goal. Stop saying "Tomorrow." Joshua and I agreed that we could have saved all of our money and used it now for rent, gas, food and a future house but we had an experience we will never forget. It brought us together more and gave us a picture of how big the world is, yet how small it is and how God is still everywhere. He is working wherever there are people and it really encourages you to see. There are always opportunities to make money again. God wants you to live and be alive and enjoy life and enjoy people and His creation. He wants you to be free and share His Word. We were not created to have a 9 to 5 job with limited time for God and real life. Jesus lived on the edge when He was here. He didn't conform to the things of this world. He had a rebellious attitude towards all the "set" "rules" man has made for one another. He wants us to be radical Christians. Basically what I am trying to say is that we should all just learn to live with risks. If we never take a risk in life how can God mold us and grow us and change us into people who are radically in love with Him. You have a King for a Father, so don't worry in this life. Just have your mind set on Christ and the future Kingdom with Him. When you do, you are able to let go of the cares of this world and stress and worry disappear. I will put verses throughout this post that will hopefully stir up all of us to just RELAX and give it ALL to the LORD.
Taking a Ferry to the other side of the land with Bryan's borrowed car!
Matthew 6:25-27 NIV "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body what you will wear. Is not life MORE important than food and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"
Matthew 6:31-34 NIV "Do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat, what shall we wear? or what shall we drink?' For the pagans run after these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
The oldest working lighthouse in Ireland. Hook Head in Wexford.
1 Peter 5:7 NLT "Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you."
Josh and Bryan
John 10:10 ESV "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."
The grass was seriously THIS green.....
.....And yes, his eyes are really THAT blue.
Psalm 37:4 ESV "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."
Psalm 118:24 NIV "This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it."
Such a cool book store with a cafe on the third floor? I have no idea how many floors it had. I felt like I could have gotten lost in it.
Ecclesiastes 2:24-25 NIV "A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too I see is from the hand of God, for without Him who can eat or find enjoyment?"
A little artists building. One section for glass blowing and the other for fashion design.
Waterford Crystal is made in Germany now. Sad day.
It was weird seeing dollar bills on the wall. It had been almost 3 months since we had seen one.
So, JUST DO IT!
