Finding the Unknown

Journal 2004 12 14
Finding the Unknown

It’s a heat wave! The temperature climbed twenty degrees to zero. A group of men went eighteen miles downstream in pursuit of bison. The ones they saw were so scrawny that they passed on them. Clark and the hunters took two deer, spent the night (an inch and a half of snow fell) and continued hunting.

I’ve been in Fairbanks when the temperature went from about fifteen below to fifteen above. It was like a heat wave to those who live there. But I slept in a warm room in the hotel with the car plugged in to a heater outside. Can’t imagine spending the night out in the open. We do live in a different world today in America.

What are the equivalent challenges today that arouse our sense of adventure and exploration? What obstacles are we willing overcome to meet the challenge? What risks are we willing to take?

What are we skilled at that can be of value to our pursuit of the unknown?

Are we looking for those places that are unknown? Are we asking our Father in Heaven to reveal them to us?