Some people are born with a spirit of adventure. Some people are even adrenaline junkies. They hold on with just one hand, waving their hat with the other and screaming at the top of their lungs!

Not me. I’m a firstborn and I’m cautious. I hang on tightly for the ride and somehow manage to keep moving forward.

My life took an interesting turn 20 years ago when I met Sue Thomas. At that time they were still filming the TV series, Sue Thomas FBEye. Only a few weeks after that first meeting she asked me to travel with her when she did her speaking tours.

After taking some time to pray about it, I came back to her with the ‘yes’ answer. I’ll never forget her excited words…

“You will have to hang on! I can’t promise you much but I CAN promise you it will be an incredible journey!”

She was speaking from experience because she knew that the God Who created the universe was personally involved in even the tiniest and most obscure details of her life…and she trusted Him.

Was she ever right! Life with Sue was quite a ride! A real adventure!

Or, as she would say, life with the LORD is the real adventure!

Not only did we travel to every single state in the US, including Hawaii and Alaska, but because of the TV show, I’ve even rubbed shoulders with movie stars in Hollywood, USA!

We also traveled internationally. Together we went to Japan, where she spoke in schools. We also met with a deaf woman who was a survivor of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki. This lady had gone out to the fields to work for the day when the bomb was dropped over the city. Her home was within the epicenter of that atomic bomb. The only trace of her home or her parents was her mother’s tooth left in the ash.

We visited Corrie Ten Boom’s house in the Netherlands and crawled inside “The Hiding Place.”

We ministered in both men’s and women’s prisons in Costa Rica.

Even though she was confined to a wheelchair, we went to multiple villages in South India where mud huts roofed with banana palm leaves have no electricity or running water. In village after village, people crowded in the dirt road to hear the words of encouragement that Sue shared through a karaoke speaker from the front seat of the car.

Whenever God opened a door, Sue boldly and bravely walked through it. Even when she was in a wheelchair. She often quoted, “What God ordains, God will sustain.”

And I simply hung on for the ride!

But today as I stand on the edge…of the rest of my life, I need to take one step at a time, and keep moving forward through the doors my Lord opens.

The Gift of Life is not a computer game. There’s no pause button or delete button. I don’t get to buy another life. I have just one opportunity.

“Only one life. Twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.” CT Studd

And I can hear Sue enthusiastically (and loudly) cheering me on, “You can do it, Thumbs! It will be worth it all! Just hang on and trust Him for the most incredible ride of your life!”