The Road Less Traveled

31. Stealing Agency

Who do we feel most loved by? People who empower us and ignite our own capability? Or those who do our work for us? Whether we're talking about our spouse, friends, or children, I don't think it's loving to do anything (repeatedly, long-term) for them that they can do for themselves. Read this article here: https://substack.com/@roadlesstraveledonline/p-190405800 [https://substack.com/@roadlesstraveledonline/p-190405800]

30. Chris Poffenroth and Pilgrim's Progress

Chris tells his story of escaping Canada and sailing solo to Mexico. Plenty of obstacles appeared, dangers threatened, and misadventures occurred, but God provided and rescued at every step along the way. To learn more and support Chris' ministry: https://www.kingdomvoyages.org

29. Direction Versus Destination

From: https://substack.com/home/post/p-156816900 [https://substack.com/home/post/p-156816900] Each and every action has a direction. We need a vision, but it need not be an inflexible blueprint of specific timelines and circumstances. The first step is know yourself. What are you good at, what do you love? What brings you to life, and what opportunities are calling to you? Which lofty ideals, indeed, appealed to you repeatedly since you were young? What do those things feel like, over and above what they might present as? Once we really accept that our individuality is a gift, we can drop the pressure of external expectations, and begin to move in the directionof these aspirations and skills, block time to allow creative inspiration to come to us, and decide whether it’s the gym or the driving range we are going to today. There does, indeed, need to be a pull toward a certain direction, and while we hold that trajectory, we can look down at our feet, be where they are, turn them slightly in the direction of the goal, and do something today that brings us that way. It can be a much more gentle process than we originally thought, in this culture of hurry.

28. Truth as the Gateway to Adventure

How do we transcend the predictable? From: https://substack.com/home/post/p-157117721 [https://substack.com/home/post/p-157117721] Jordan B Peterson: "If you say the truth and nothing else, you will have an immense adventure as a consequence. You will not know what is going to happen to you, but you have to let go of clinging to the outcome. You have to let go. The truth will reveal the world the way it is intended to be revealed. The consequence for you will be that you will have the adventure of your life. The other part of that ethos—which makes perfect sense to me and I cannot see how it can be any other way—is that whatever makes itself manifest as a consequence of the truth is the best possible reality that could be manifest, even if you cannot see it.”

27. Individuation as the Pathway to Loving Others

Perhaps the only way we ever create the room to love others selflessly, to truly desire their growth and flourishing, is to become radically involved in our own journeys.