I don\u2019t know about you, but I love a good road trip. There\u2019s something really satisfying about covering large distances while listening to a great audiobook or inspiring music. I\u2019ve always thought the point of a truly worthy road trip wasn\u2019t just the destination, but the journey itself and the route by which you get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year our family took a three-week road trip through Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Over the years we’ve taken many road trips, but that was one of the all-time greats. We look back on it with the fondest memories\u2014the wildlife, the berries, the friends, the midnight sun, the hiking, the camping, Landon\u2019s twisted ankle (ughh!), swimming in the Arctic Ocean, getting lost in Finland, and, of course, the \u201cdestination\u201d\u2014the far north of Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ll often say things like, \u201cWe have<\/em> to do that trip again\u201d and \u201cNext time we\u2019ll spend more time doing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I\u2019m 46 now. My boys are in their late teens. Soon they’ll be on road trips\u00a0with their own families.\u00a0<\/em>This brings me such simultaneous joy and sadness. Joy for the life that lays ahead of my beloved sons, and sadness, of course, that a chapter of our<\/em>\u00a0family\u2019s is likely nearing a close.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t believe in bucket lists, I want to do it all<\/em>!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll be honest, it makes me mad. I\u2019ve heard it said the problem with kittens is that they become cats. Chapters open\u2014childhood, dating, marriage, children, grandchildren\u2014and chapters close. It’s normal. And we need to continually remind ourselves not all even get these chapters, because death, disease, and disaster lurk like lions in the bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And yet I want to do more. See more. Experience more. I want to take a thousand more road trips. As author and philanthropist Bob Goff says, \u201cI don\u2019t believe in bucket lists, I want to do it all<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I reflect on these things, I’m reminded of Solomon\u2019s spot-on observation that, \u201c[God] has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts\u201d (Ecclesiastes 3:11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What a thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But eternity is what we\u2019ll need to do<\/em> it all and to see<\/em> it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n God made us that way. And I’m happy about it. I\u2019m looking forward to heavenly road trips. What will they be like? What beauty will unfold? I don\u2019t know, but I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’ll be even better than Norway\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t know about you, but I love a good road trip. There\u2019s something really satisfying about covering large distances while listening…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-12873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional","tag-newsletter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Better_Than_Norway.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paAh8r-3lD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12879,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12873\/revisions\/12879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}