A traveling occasion.

So I'm in this Music History class.

It's really awesome. 

I have a GREAT teacher, awesome class mates, and it just helps that the subject matter is something I am passionate about. 

My GREAT teacher, mentioned something today that blew my mind.

Back in the day, people didn't leave their home town, village, tribe, city, mud house, igloo (I don't know, you get the gist) ever. 

They didn't ever once think "Hey, if I started walking that direction, where would I end up?" 

It wasn't until the Renaissance Era that people started exploring our world, we see early explorers like Magellan and Columbus taking on the world one wrong continent at a time. ;-)  

See up until then, everyone thought the earth was flat and you would fall off the edge of it if you walked far enough. 

We have lots of stories and mythology that talk about the edge of the earth. 

So a thought popped into my head, "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue."

And of course we know that 1492 happened after Christ. 

Which means people have been traveling the world for less then a millennium. 

So think about all the stories that happened in the Old Testament where people traveled. 

The Israelites, thousands of people just up and leave behind a life of slavery because God told them too. 

Noah, built a freaking ark, because the waves were going to take him somewhere. 

But the earth is flat! 

These people are getting up, and prepared to fall off the edge of the earth.

Obviously, we know the earth is round now, and I can get on a plane and fly just about any where on this planet. 

And I will not fall off. 

But I am terrified. 

And I know the earth isn't flat. 

I know people in other places.

God has promised me so many things. 

But I'm scared. 

I am nervous. 

I don't want to fall off the edge of the earth. 

I have dreams. 

I have my Oscar/Grammy/Golden Globes/Screen Actors Guild Award acceptance speeches planned for goodness sakes! ;-)

I have dreams.

Thinking about what it's going to take to get me there...

I'm going to have to leave Colorado at some point.

I am going to have to take dance lessons.

I am going to have to do so much homework, I won't be able to breathe.

I am going to have to eat and breathe my scripts.

I am going to have to hear rejection after rejection. 

I am going to have to have moments where I have no idea what I am doing or where I am going. 

The "traveling" ahead of me, is literal, and figurative. 

I have all these dreams! 

Awesome future plans. 

And they are so exciting. 

And sometimes, really discouraging, because I'll be sitting in my math class, pulling my hair out going "when am I ever going to use this???" 

I mean come on! I'm going to be famous. I can pay someone to do this for me. 

But I am not famous now. 

I am a college student now.

And I like to look forward to the things I want to do and dream about. 

But right now I am a college student. 

My Parting of the Red Sea looks like showing up to class.

My Ark looks like having faith that God will take care of me. 

I don't want to fall of the edge of the earth. 

But if I do...

It'll be an awfully big adventure.