Wilderness is a place for asking unsettling questions. Questions like,”Why am I here? Why do I feel the way I do?”, “Where am I going?” Or even, “What does being a disciple of Jesus actually mean?”
Our Soul is Made for a Higher Quality of Life
I’m concerned with the dizzying pace people are living in order to avoid loneliness. Young people especially constantly teeter on the edge of insecurity, rattled by broken families, confusion about one’s purpose, and constantly picking up pieces of their Humpty Dumpty lives… They feel helpless in repairing their shattered families, they feel self-conscious, inundated by unrealistic personas where people compare themselves to others best version of themselves on social media. And to top it off, the fear-mongering of modern media which only cares to fuel people’s anxieties so they can get into your pocketbooks, leaves us tumbling around in a river of opinions. We secretly wonder, “Who should I trust?”
Wilderness experiences are truly a reset button to the frozen screen of your overheating mind.
The Wilderness Reset Button
Wilderness experiences are truly a reset button to the frozen screen of your overheating mind. Intentional time in the wilderness is not an escape, it’s actually much more powerful than that. We escape when we feel out of control. We bail, we move on, we dismiss things altogether in order to regain control. Yet these are all coping mechanisms that take your soul in reverse. Coping mechanisms don’t solve any problems, they just get us through the day. Wilderness experiences on the other hand are not an escape. They are a saving grace. Wilderness inspires your soul by mirroring to it a higher standard for which you were created. When you are gazing on the pristine beauty of untrammeled wilderness, when you are sitting around a meal where there is nowhere else to go, your soul begins to taste a higher quality of life.
A Race to the Bottom, or a Path Higher Standards. What Shall it Be?
Young people today, are naturally impressionable because they are growing fast during adolescence. Fast growth can be okay, but now when you are being shaped by forces which are out of your control. The dizzying pace of information flooding global youth culture is nothing short of a hurricane force wind that has no respect of persons. It has the power to destroy what’s in its path. What young people today so desperately need is a trusted guide to lift them from the rooftop of their water-surrounded house.
You and Your Church Can Be a Trusted Guide by Starting or Continuing a Wilderness Ministry
Providing life-changing wilderness experiences for young people is realistic and you can do it! This blog exists to help churches and organizations that may feel like they don’t have what it takes to develop an in-house wilderness ministry. We stand in the gap and provide all that is needed to help churches grow deeper and wider by following the same pattern of Jesus in spending regular time in God’s creation.
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