Dear Cornerstone Family,
If our family of four ever had a theme song it surely would have been Steven Curtis Chapman’s “The Great Adventure.”
When the song was released, our girls were about 7 and 9 years of age. Day after day those sounds bounced off the walls of our home and into the corners of our hearts as melody and lyrics found a place to live on. The cassette recording seemed to go with us every road trip for the next few years. We listened more than once with the windows down.
It’s a toe-tapping, knee-slapping kind of tune, but it was the lyrics that first grabbed my attention and then my heart.
Started out this morning in the usual way,
Chasing thoughts inside my head I thought I had to do today.
Another time around the circle; try to make it better than the last.
I opened up the Bible and I read about me,
Said I’d been a prisoner and God’s Grace had set me free;
And somewhere between the pages, it hit me like a lightning bolt;
I saw a big frontier in front of me, and I heard somebody say ‘Let’s go!’
CHORUS: Saddle up your horses, we’ve got a trail to blaze;
Through the wild blue yonder of God’s Amazing grace.
Let’s follow our leader into the Glorious unknown.
This is the life like no other. This is The Great Adventure.
We’ll travel on, over mountains so high; we’ll go through valleys below.
Still through it all we’ll find that this is the greatest journey that the human heart will ever see.
The love of God will take us far beyond our wildest dreams.
Beyond our wildest dreams. It’s been true so far. A life like no other. The love of God taking us further into Himself and into His purposes for the world.
And the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting that awaits us—that “Glorious unknown”—promises us that the wildest is yet to come.
If that song is new to you, take a listen sometime. Don’t bother looking for the cassette or a Walkman (some of you may need to ask parents or grandparents about that). That song still lives on YouTube or Spotify.
Then saddle up for the adventure that awaits. Let’s follow our Leader into the glorious unknown of tomorrow and the rest of our days in this world.
Your servant,
Tony