What you’ve been looking forward to your entire life is completed in minutes. Although short by itself, the road leading up to it was long. Doing the work to get to those few moments was rarely visible but vital.

On the cusp of no a yes was born. An adventure shared, a moment made. Adrenaline coursing through our veins.

Mennonites who were persecuted in Europe fled and arrived in America in 1683. Keep in mind the Mayflower landed in 1620, so these were among the earliest settlers. The Mennonites settled in Pennsylvania and founded Germantown, the first German settlement in America, which is now part of Philadelphia. At the same time, the remaining Mennonite…

I made an ask. I took action. I did something that had the potential for rejection and failure. Nothing that’s worth doing is easy.

When the going gets tough, what do people really value? What will they come back to consistently? What is a nonnegotiable to them?