Jacquie and I began our most recent adventure about four years ago. We felt it was time to come "home" to California after having been away for about sixteen years in Spain and New England. That was when we started walking. Where would we end up? What would we be doing? All we knew was that we were committed to loving God, loving our neighbors, and wanted to serve in whatever meaningful way we could both in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Spain. 
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I have been realizing lately how important it is for each one of us to speak up. It seems like everywhere I go, every conversation I engage in, videos I watch, even some of the things I am reading communicate the same thing: If one of us remains silent, we all miss out.
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What do you want? I mean, what do you REALLY want? The difference I make between wanting something and REALLY wanting something is like when you would like to lose weight but you would also like to eat a bag of tortilla chips when you get home from work...which also happens to be about thirty minutes before dinner...and eating the chips is what you end up doing. Believe me: I know of what I speak! (*On a side note: doesn't it seem like bags of tortilla chips are smaller these days and easier to consume a full bag in one, half-hour sitting while mindlessly watching CNN's Newsroom?)
Thinking about what I really want made me think about Donald Miller's book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. 
Frankly, part of what makes the book so powerful is that by uncovering some of his own weaknesses and shortcomings, Miller turns the lights on some of the excuses we have been feeding ourselves...perhaps for years.
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