Keegan Ruddy
Outside Reading
Wild at Heart
A quote I read from John Eldredge's book Wild at Heart was from another writer, Howard Macey. It read "The spiritual life cannot be made suburban. It is always frontier, and we who live in it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed." (Macey). This quote hit me, as a man of faith. Life in general is not meant to settle into, find a place and just ride it out for the entirety of life. A list of everyday, mundane tasks, that are repeated daily for a lifetime is not what we as humans were given this life for. This is not to say that cleaning the house, taking out the garbage, and yard work are not to be done. It is simply saying that to make a lifetime of these events is not the goal. The goal is to live a life that was given to us, given to us in abundance. Throughout the movies we have watched in our class, a theme that can be picked out of a good number is character's appreciation for life. The normal parts of life and the adventures. The adventures are what form people for the everyday. The frontier in this quote is the idea of humans having a need to constantly be pushing outside their comfort zone. While there are times in life where humans can fall into suburban life, we are made for more. We are made for the frontier!
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