Growing beside a stream

I was fortunate enough to remember the time my family lived in the country.  Behind our house was a beautiful little stream that provided hours of fun for a little boy looking for adventure. 
To this day, I still collect rocks and shells, know where to find the crayfish and the frogs and which rocks to pull up to find some well preserved Ontario clay ready to be molded into whatever was fashionable for the day.
Learning, discovering, enjoying are not words one uses in their description of our day to day experience with God. But if we think about it, those are the descriptions of success in everything we do. We may be in a war, we may be up against all odds, we may be surrounded by those who want to do us harm, we may have taken on a task, calling it our own, when it actually doesn't belong to us, but rather belongs with God - we may be very unhappy right now because of all those things.  And so our heart cries out to know God - God I want to know you!  And as surely as you do, He will make Himself known and the adventure has just begun.