So Chandler has upped the ante on his dream motorcycle trip. It started with renting two bikes and motoring together to the Grand Canyon (when he’s old enough for a license, of course). Our trip last week was to have been a precursor to that. It’s probably a good thing because Chandler has decided the Grand Canyon is not going to be his favored destination; he was much more enchanted by our Route 66 adventure. So now he has a new plan: fly to Chicago, buy two bikes, and motor home the whole length of the Mother Road of America. I need to get busy on this right now if I think I am going to make that dream come true in two and a half years!

Two of our readers have already ridden the entire length of the old Route 66. Deanne and Dale (ages 72 and 80) are longtime members of the Christian Motorcyclists Association. On that trip they discovered the old road goes two blocks from their son’s house in Missouri, and that Tucumcari is indeed “a great little town.” Deanne wrote me about their most compelling insight in the following: “Old 66 is a lot like life — there are unexpected fun and interesting things right around nearly every corner. We just have to get out there and go experience them. God has ‘already prepared those places for us,’ we only need to get a move on and GO! We think His statement about ‘I go to prepare a place for you’ applies to our heaven on earth too, and He’s here (down the road) also!”

I love her statement that Jesus is just down the road as much as He is right here. It reminds me of Ephesians 2:10, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” God has already prepared the good things we will do; it only remains for us to walk in them.

That makes us living, breathing, ongoing participants in God’s creative process. However, it does require one thing, what Deanne brought out: GO. Get up and get moving. You can’t discover what God has prepared for you sitting down. You walk into it. You get yourself down the road where Jesus is, and where the good things God has prepared for you are waiting.

Remember that today. Jesus is in your heart, but He’s just down the road, too. Your experience of Him is waiting for you to get up and go!