For 17 years, Jim Huthmaker worked as a smokejumper for the U.S. government, parachuting into forests to douse fires around the Pacific Northwest. He spent years pursuing the thrill of a career that catered to his skillset and whet his appetite for adventure.
It was his best life.
Then, in the middle of his exhilarating career, he “woke up.”
Kara Bettis
Some leading economists are calling Christians to remember whose image they are supposed to bear.
For 17 years, Jim Huthmaker worked as a smokejumper for the U.S. government, parachuting into forests to douse fires around the Pacific Northwest. He spent years pursuing the thrill of a career that catered to his skillset and whet his appetite for adventure.
It was his best life.
Then, in the middle of his exhilarating career, he “woke up.”
Huthmaker’s wake up wasn’t so much a realization as a confession. For years, he had been “deeply unsatisfied,” and he was finally admitting it.
“I did feel like I was pursuing and had attained some sort of American dream,” Huthmaker said during a conversation earlier this year, “only to find that what I thought was ‘it’