Life is an Adventure

Tonight we will talk about how life is truly an adventure, mama.

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Just remember when life doesn't go the way you expect, that life is actually an adventure. We're going to talk about that tonight on Midnight Mamas. The idea of life becoming an adventure started for me when I was a very little girl, and my grandmother literally had us in the middle of a cornfield in our Buickla Saber. And I remember looking out the window saying, Grammy, I don't think we are where we should be. And she said, Oh, Jessica, life is an adventure. Meanwhile, the corn stalks are like grilling down the brand new Buickle Saber's doors and side panels. And I remember thinking, Wow, that's an interesting way to look at it. You see, my Grammy was a very smart woman. She was dignified, refined. She was well loved by everyone, and she did so much for the people around her. She had this amazing charisma and character about her. And my sister and I were in the back seat that day, and we looked at each other, and we looked at our grandmother, who looked at us in the rearview mirror, and she just smiled and said, Girls, life is an adventure. And she would say it so happy and smiley. And it really helped me to understand that life truly, truly is an adventure. And as I got older and became a mother myself, I realized that life is an adventure because it's about the perspective that we have when things are just not going as expected and completely go a different direction. Or if we plan our day and then it takes a sharp left turn and we end up doing something completely different, or you make plans to go to the water park and it starts to pour rain. It's all about what you do next. See, in life we're going to be given things that are going to be great. And then we're going to be given things that weren't what we expected at all. And when our kids are in tow and they're watching us and they're nervous or wondering what's going to happen because things didn't go the way we planned, we get the opportunity to do just like my Grammy did and say, Life is an adventure, and just smile real big as you go through the unexpected. I think we serve an adventurous God. I think the Lord wants us to have a sense of anticipation of what's to come. I also think he likes to see us trust him in ways that we might not have done had everything just always gone smoothly, because he is refining us, he is making us more like him every day as mamas. And so tonight I want to ask you, when things don't go your way, or when things take a sharp left turn, or you had expected your day to be one thing and then it switched to another unexpectedly, how do you handle that? Do you get really irritated? Do you accept the change? Is it frustration that you feel, or is it an anticipation of what God's gonna do next? Because you see, it's always gonna come at a time when you don't expect it. It's also gonna come at a time when you'd rather have done something different, or you had planned to do something different, even. So embracing this unexpected thing can really be an adventure. This week I took a bunch of children and their parents to a children's museum and then scheduled after that a water park. It was a field trip finale. And on our way, we knew that the air quality index was maybe going to be off because of all the fires around us in the Pacific Northwest, and that meant they might close the water park down. But I also knew families would still enjoy the museum, so I told them, let's pack for the whole day, and then we'll decide after the museum if we can move on to the next water activity or we have to do something different. And I explained to the families that life really is an adventure, and you have to be prepared for anything. So tonight, mama, I want to just remind you look forward to things, plan things, anticipate, but also be ready on very short notice to change plans, to switch scripts, to show up somewhere different than you expected, because you never know what's gonna happen. But your perspective is what matters. So with your children in tow, always have a perspective of I'm looking to see what God is going to do next. Because when God interrupts your plans, it's usually for a divine reason. You see, in the Bible, there was a time where Jesus ended up coming through a Samaritan village and he stopped to get water from the well in the middle of the day. And the woman who came out to serve him water was a woman that nobody would probably have been around because of her past, but Jesus was there, and he talked to her and he knew her life, and he shared with her that he was going to share with her water that would never run out, and she would thirst no more. It's in John chapter 4 and verse 1 throughout that beginning part of the chapter, up until verse 26. And the Lord has a conversation with her, and she comes to understand that he really is who he says he is, and she goes on and shares that with her whole village. But you know, if her day had just gone the way she expected, this amazing thing wouldn't have happened, and her life would not have been changed. So I'm going to encourage you tonight, mamas, to look for those blessed moments that don't go the way you're expecting, and they're in fact unexpected, because it's in those moments that the Lord is doing a work in our hearts and in our children's hearts, and he's paving way for the adventures that lie ahead. So I ask you tonight, what if we just really took on this idea that life is an adventure? We pack our backpacks each day, meaning we gear up with the understanding that God is gonna do something today, and then we go out ready and looking for what that is. We will enjoy our lives as mothers so much more if we choose to look at life as an adventure. So tonight I'm gonna leave you with a blessing, Mamas, from number six, twenty-four through twenty six. May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face to shine upon you, be gracious unto you, and give you peace. Amen. Until next time, mamas, just remember life is an adventure. And we'll talk again soon. Take care.