* Every day was vivid, electric, adventurous, invigorating, and exhilarating. Every nerve was standing on tiptoe, every sense was activated, every emotion was alive! My whole being was on call, on alert. (The spaceship play)
* I was given my first taste of abandon, my first experience of giving myself over unrestrainedly to an idea larger than myself. God was gifting me, preparing me for that moment when I would bump into Jesus and He would beckon me to come, abandon all else, and follow Him.
* ... somehow these men knew that life with Jesus is the life they had been seeking unsuccessfully in the confines of safety and caution. They knew life's greatest adventure was waiting just beyond the limits of carefulness.
* "Abandon yourself to the One who will never abandon you."
* Christianity is this wild religion that has always been more concerned about following Jesus than following the rules of Jesus.
* Mistakes are the guaranteed consequence of wild abandon. Mistakes are signs of growth. That is why the Old and the New Testament are full of people who made mistakes. The church should be the one place in our culture where mistakes are not only expected but welcomed.
* Faith is about recklessly following Jesus wherever He goes. ... Reckless abandon does not mean we make the rules and He follows us. Following Christ with abandon does not give us permission to kill those who make rules we don't agree with. Remember, Jesus let the rule monitors use their rules to kill Him.
* There is nowhere else to go except to follow Jesus.
* Fear keeps us from experimenting, from taking chances, from trying the new, from choosing the discomfort of exploring uncharted waters, from stepping out in the darkness, from going where no one else has gone.
* When we follow the rule-violating, religion-threatening, category-breaking Jesus, our lives are always in jeopardy.
* The Christian life is more than finding Jesus - it is following Jesus. Following, it turns out, is not a one-time, spectacular act of faith, but a one-day-at-a-time, ordinary, unspectacular following; a daily act of fearlessness that takes us through the most frightening and rugged terrain to a place of peace, joy, and abandon.
* A life of abandon is a life of resistance, a lonely life, a minority life, and, above all, an incomprehensible life.
* Two roads diverged in this little girl's life. One is the road of rules and expectations, the other is the road of love. The roads of our lives are much the same. Will we go for the safe, predictable road of rules and expectations? Or will we go for the One we love, Jesus, who bids us come with wild abandon?
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