Wild Goose Chase part 1- Otro dia, Otra Aventura

Ever come cross a book that you KNOW you’ll read multiple times?  Yeah, I hardly ever do.  But my co-workers and I just started reading “Wild Goose Chase” together.  When you flip a book over to read the back, if it’s good, It’ll grab you.  Here’s the back of this book:

Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit–An Geadh-Glas, or ‘the Wild Goose.’ The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it’s like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something…Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.

It’s my second time…and it WON’T be my last.  Chapter 1′s take-away? “You cannot simultaneously live by faith and be bored.”  So here’s the adventure that chasing the Wild Goose brought me to last week.

Thursday

I was supposed to go to one of my High Schools, but it didn’t work out.  Seeing as how I get to drive all over the East Bay, I figured I might as well drive on up to Cal-Berkeley and hang with the coach I was supposed to meet for afternoon coffee.  I’ve had so many names at Cal dropped on me since I got here, so I said, “Ok God…gonna go try and find these people…order my steps?”  The result?  A head coach who is “in” for helping with an FCA clinic, the opportunity to speak to her team, and a knowledge of how to pray for her.  An asst coach who shared some big decisions with me and walked me all over campus and helped me find the other two people I was looking for.  A office visit with a support staffperson who has several multiple friends as me (what? a girl who only moved to cali 3 months ago??) and is armpit deep in ministering to their athletes (plus he has a wife who played college soccer…I’m a fan!).  Crazy.

Friday

Rigo and I went to Santa Clara University intending to find two coaches.  They weren’t available. (sound familiar?)  Well, since spending time with my new friends at Cal the day before, one had told me to go say hi to one of the AD’s…a friend of his.  So Rigo and I roll up to this guy’s office, unannounced and unknown and get the chance to sit down with him, explain FCA, and hopefully encourage him some.  What?!?  While we were waiting to see him, Rigo’s phone rings and we both start laughing.  It’s an SCU athlete we’ve both been trying to connect with for several weeks.  And we hear back from him while sitting in SCU’s AD office?  The only day we BOTH have been on that campus together?  Totally gotta to connect up with this athlete 10 minutes later and try to hook him up with other FCA college athletes, and maybe even get something started on SCU’s campus before this year is out. 

Otro dia, otra aventura- another day, another adventure…a day in the life of chasing the Wild Goose.