The risk - Chapter 3 & 4

God risks it but we do not

God risk it back in the garden with Adam, and we try to make it safer day by day. Mr. Eldredge would suggest this is what is wrong with us. Is it because we missed a stage? The Stages suggested are:

• boyhood
• cowboy
• warrior
• lover
• king
• sage

One feels like he missed the warrior stage and does not know how to fight, two are new to the concept and must explore the stages further.

God is good and put the good in us, God is also adventurous. God wanted Adam to choose good because God formed him in His image.
One wants to head out on a motorcycle for two weeks. Unfortunately that is not long enough to make it out of Texas

Oh I did that and survived

Does that mean it was suicidal to begin with? But yet we gain confidence to experience the next adventure.

Is it OK to be OK

Sometimes I think we miss out on God's wonderment because we are too busy being not OK. And OK is a level of perception. If you don't get shot at or spit on traveling to church, then everything else is OK. We are so rich in this country that we don't know what not O.K is.
Walking through a darken field letting/teaching a little girl know it is O.K. to walk without the light on.
I was listening to the wife of @troylivesay their blog on a runner show (click through to the middle) talk about Haiti and she kept breaking into tears. Haiti (poorest country in western hemisphere)is not OK, but yet they praise God.

Level of Riskyness

1. In bed
2. car with helmet, five point harness and roll cage
3. car not wearing a seat belt or helmet
4. motorcycle with gear/helmet
5. motorcycle with no helmet

I think we can all agree that there is an increasing level of risk that goes along with each of these activities. But no one thinks about jumping in a car with no helmet, but race car drivers can't race without a helmet. We don't wear helmets when we ski, because we were brought up that way, but to rent skis for youth, they have to have a helmet. What is the acceptable level of risk and where is God in the protection of us with or without helmets? What is your list of what you are good at?