Why "Whence the Adventure?"

Have you ever had an adventure? In his essay On Running After One's Hat, G.K. Chesterton wrote, 

An adventure is only an inconvenience ​
rightly considered. An inconvenience is only
​an adventure wrongly considered.

How easy it is to believe that our lives lack adventure! But how many of us can say that we never experience inconvenience? When we take Chesterton's words to heart, our whole lives open up to the possibility of adventure at every moment--even in the most ordinary of days.

The name Whence the Adventure is an attempt to capture that reality. "Whence" is one of those, shall we say, antique words that has largely fallen out of use, but it expresses so much of the adventurous spirit.​

First, the word "whence" is both a question and an answer. To ask from whence a thing comes is to open oneself up to mystery and wonder. To seek the answer is adventure. To embrace the answer is to invite that mystery and wonder into one's own life and heart.

Second, "whence" is directional. It has a source, and it has a trajectory. Like life. Like souls. Like you and me.

Third, it is an invitation to ask this question in our own lives and hearts: From whence comes the adventure of this present moment? From whence comes the extraordinary gift of each ordinary day? From whence comes the great adventure that we call life? And the answer, of course, is not a where, but a Whom.

​Welcome, fellow sojourner, to Whence the Adventure​.