The Great Adventure!

Life is one great adventure. We have been given a gift, The gift, the chance to live! We don't have to exist. What if we didn't exist, well we wouldn't know that, because we wouldn't exist to know. But we do exist. We are alive, and we have the chance to live on this magnificent creation called Earth.

This past week has been a very hard week. Winter is wearing on me - I often start getting really anxious around this time of year to go outside and just run around - but I'm stuck inside all the time. Our Latin teacher came down on us with a ton of homework. I have a bunch of other homework, and other responsibilities. But, it was a great adventure of a week.

I really like adventure. I have usually been a person who likes change. I like spontaneity. I love road trips, especially when they're only partly planned out. Because of all this, I found it really hard to be in the seminary after the first month or two, because we have a very rigid schedule. However, I have recently realized that every day can be an adventure if we approach it the right way.

Although I knew I would wake up this morning and go to mass at 6:30, finish my Latin homework, go to Latin, read Augustine, go to medieval philosophy, have lunch, go to Christian view of a Person, etc... I didn't know what was going to happen at each place. I didn't know what kind of challenges I would face, who I might get in a conversation with, or even where I might be struck by something beautiful, like the extra four inches of snow we got today. We can't know what is coming, or what our experiences will be exactly. Life is a beautiful gift that we should always try to embrace and a challenge we should always try to give all we can.

Every day is an adventure, so be sure live in every moment!

St. Paul, the great evangelist, pray for us!