Our uncommon adventure started even before “I do”.

 Steve and I met during college, started dating our senior year, and got engaged 4 months later. We got married 7 months after that. We had no idea what we were doing, or what would happen, but we knew we were all in.

In a world of non commitment and hookups, we chose to face the world together. It’s a choice I’ll never regret. Choosing to love, and choosing to stick together through thick and thin is completely contrary to what the world tells us we should choose. And that is why I choose to be uncommon

The uncommon adventure is all about going against the cultural grain. It means living without debt, cooking from scratch, and choosing your partner and remaining faithful. Being uncommon means waiting for things.

Why do we wait?

We have waited more times than I can count. We waited for a car we could afford (including buying an old mini van that barely ran to make it through), a home, for a different home, for a child. Listen if you can dream of it, we’ve waited for it.

Those times were hard. Patience is not natural to us and we struggled. While we waited for a home, I remember feeling so useless. Standing still instead of pushing onward was difficult. And when our house came, I was upset. We had waited for so long and what we received was not what I wanted. We walked up to a tiny house, on a busy road. The only positives were a massive garage (bigger than the house itself) and a yard that was larger than most on our street. But I couldn’t even see those in that moment.

I was angry. Angry at God, angry at myself, angry at Steve. I prayed and prayed, and God always said “wait”.

Our world tells us if we don’t get what we want right now, we aren’t good enough. If we wait for something we don’t have enough, or care enough or aren’t smart enough.

Time to listen up adventurers. Waiting does not make you weak. It does not make you stupid and it does not make you less than.

Waiting makes you wise. It makes you strong. Waiting makes you think through something before wasting your time and energy.

Waiting is uncommon. And so are you. Life is your adventure and you get to control what kind of adventure it is. So, do you want to go with the crowd and be like everyone else? Or, do you want to be bold, wise and decisive?

Choose Life. Choose Faith. Choose Love. Choose to live uncommon.

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