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SummaryβHi, Iβm Gabe. Twenty years ago I chased thrills up in the Oregon mountainsβswashbuckling on logging rigsβbut still felt empty inside. In frustration I turned to drugs and alcohol, hoping for the fullness I craved, only to sink deeper into emptiness. One day, perched a hundred feet in a tree, I paused and cried out to God: βIf Youβre real, I want it all!β When I came down, something inside me had changedβan unnameable joy! On the drive home, I simply pulled into a church parking lot and knocked on the door. Thatβs where I met Jesus. Now I help lead Everyone Village, an intentional community in Eugene where we heal together on lifeβs margins. Godβs adventure is so much bigger and more breathtaking than anything I ever imagined!β ππ²π
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There was a fundamental change in here when I came down from that tree. Hi everybody, my name is Gabe and I’m 42 years old and I find myself very busy these days leading Everyone Village or helping to lead Everyone Village which is a intentional community to help folks heal from the margins of our community. So as a young wild-eyed 20 year old kid all I wanted out of this world was a great adventure. I could not stand the thought that Indiana Jones would have all the fun and so I started logging on the mountain here in Oregon and unexpectedly turned into a 15-year career and there is so much adventure and daring do and swashbuckling on a logging job but oddly enough after many years of doing that work I found myself still yearning for fullness,
a fullness and richness of life that I thought I would find there and it just didn’t happen and so I became very frustrated and I found myself still yearning for fullness, a fullness and richness of life that I thought I turned to drugs and alcohol to try and see if that would get me over the hump into this full experience of life and richness and unfortunately that led to the opposite. It left me more empty and more despondent. So in the middle of this journey seeking a full experience of life I sat 100 feet up in a tree because I was a high climber on the logging crew and in front of me unfolded this tremendous scene of rich full life and perfect balance and harmony.
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the top of that tree I looked up at the sky and I said, God, if you got this to me, I’m asking boldly, I want it! And lo and behold I came down from the tree and there was a fundamental change in here when I came down from that tree. I couldn’t describe it to you, I couldn’t word it for you but boy oh boy, it was very prominent and then after that driving home I thought well what do I do about this I don’t even know anything about God I thought the natural next step is I go to a church so I literally just peeled on the way home into a church parking
lot and I knocked on the door and I said hey I just asked God to help me out and come into my life and lead me to richness and fullness what do I do next when I started developing relationships with people who helped me to start to learn about this amazing unbelievable person called Jesus Christ and what has happened is all of my concepts of what adventure could be should be might be he has literally blown out of the water and that is part or parcel my experience at everyone village I find myself in today I would have never in a million years guess that this adventure was in store for me and it is an adventure that’s an story for another time it is amazing and god has showed me a shape of adventure for my life that is so much bigger and broader and deeper and meaningful it just is breathtaking.
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