I have nothing to say on a day like today (Or so I feel)

Dear friends
I am getting a download from Papa for sure. But it's mostly personal stuff. Stuff I cannot yet put into words suitable for other people to view or hear. Actually, something crazy that Papa's been speaking to me is through the song "Where The Streets Have No Name" by U2. It's an incredible song in it's own right, but it means something special to me.

"I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

I want to feel sunlight on my face
See that dust cloud disappear without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love, burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you...
(it's all I can do)

The cities a flood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled into dust
Ill show you a place
High on the desert plain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
Still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
(it's all I can do)"

I guess you can say I often get this feeling that I want to run so far away from everything, leave it all behind. Feel the sun and the wind and see everything the world has to offer. I have always had an unquenchable, unbridled sense of adventure. I always have felt like I belonged in an adventure, a fairy tale, a storybook of magic and action and valor, where I'm fighting to live, each new day filled with another chance to prove myself, to grow into who I'm supposed to be. I love stories of redemption, those were always my favorite.

I have reason to believe I felt (and still feel) this way for a reason. That it's a part of what I'm called to, what I'm supposed to be. Haven't you ever imagined yourself the hero in some story? Overcoming the odds to save the day? To live to see another sunrise? I have more times than I can ever begin to count.

Whenever I hear U2's song, I just about cry because it fills me with that adventure again. To break out of this dreary, everyday routine I've fallen into. Everything is set, it all has to be a certain way, nothing ever changes. I'm still looked at the same way, I'm still seen as the awkward child I once was, and not the growing, passionate, Christ-loving young person I strive to be. I want to run and find a place where the streets have no name, where no one's value is decided by the name of the street they live.

I think I'm called to play a part in a grand adventure. I think I'm invited to be something more than I ever thought I could be. Maybe God's extended his hand to me and invited me to be a part of his story. Maybe he put this burning passion for people, for the broken-hearted and the lonely, in me so I could be a part of their story.

One day, I'll break off and I'll find what I'm called to do. And I'll bet it's everything I could ever dream, everything I could ever imagine. I'll bet it's an adventure of the highest order.

I've got a role to play in one of the best, action-packed, redemption-filled stories in the world.

I bet you do too.