In the early weeks of February, when I first heard that the topic for Ocsplora this month would be Sex and Romance, I quickly lost interest in contributing. I thought to myself, ‘How on Earth can one be creative in sex and romance and how does that tie into what we do at Ocsplora?’ I also thought that it was a bit tacky that we chose that topic only because Valentine’s Day falls within the month.
A couple days after that I was listening to a talk Donald Miller gave to a bunch of students at Harvard about relationships. He told a story about his friend who asked him one day if he wanted to go photograph Mt. Bachelor in Oregon one early morning. Donald reluctantly agreed and the two of them set out the next day around two in the morning to catch the sunrise. When the two of them were about sixty miles from anywhere, his friend pulled the car over, shut it off, got out of the vehicle, started walking down the road and finally stopped about twenty-five feet up the road and laid down…. Read more…
