Our Journey
10.24.05 (5:33 pm) [edit]I think we are on a journey, sometimes it is dark, very dark, but there is also light along the way. We each have burdens to carry, burdens that are loaded on the wagon we drag around with us as we slowly move down the road to our destination. We either slowly lighten the wagon, or continue to collect "stuff" and load er up so to speak. I think most of us are in the middle somewhere; wanting freedom, but fearful of what it would be like to be free....or for the matter "who the hell" would we be if totally free.
Dreams are important to me, and they have helped me on my journey. Once I had a dream in which Thomas Merton came to me, and in the dream he asked me a question. The question being:
"Mitch, what does it mean to be a Christian?"
I answered
"I have no idea" (at that time I was in crisis)
So Merton continued,
"Mitch, a christian is a man who clings to Christ even when he is in despair"
I awoke a changed man, not better, but I am better at despair than I was before the dream. I cling to the reality of God's love, and even if life does not always makes sense, or if I seem stuck, I believe that something deep within is going on. There is a saying "God works in secret", I really believe that.
Our lives makes sense, we are moving forward, fast or slow I don't think it matters. Just keep on doing your best, grace will take care of the rest.
About time, yes it moves fast, faster, zooming along. I like it that way, life is dream like in that regard. I think if I live to be 100, I will look back on my life and it will seem like nothing at all, like a flash in the pan, yes like a dream. Life is important, but the actual meaning of it all is held from us, perhaps we need the crap we go through, perhaps it forms us, makes us who we are. Perhaps our wounds will be our glory, our pride, our crown so to speak. One thing the reward of seeking truth and love is the ability to grow in love, ever more fully and broadly, and freely. For each of us it is different, so best not to compare. Since we each of our own unique hurdles to overcome.
Peace
mitch
Dreams are important to me, and they have helped me on my journey. Once I had a dream in which Thomas Merton came to me, and in the dream he asked me a question. The question being:
"Mitch, what does it mean to be a Christian?"
I answered
"I have no idea" (at that time I was in crisis)
So Merton continued,
"Mitch, a christian is a man who clings to Christ even when he is in despair"
I awoke a changed man, not better, but I am better at despair than I was before the dream. I cling to the reality of God's love, and even if life does not always makes sense, or if I seem stuck, I believe that something deep within is going on. There is a saying "God works in secret", I really believe that.
Our lives makes sense, we are moving forward, fast or slow I don't think it matters. Just keep on doing your best, grace will take care of the rest.
About time, yes it moves fast, faster, zooming along. I like it that way, life is dream like in that regard. I think if I live to be 100, I will look back on my life and it will seem like nothing at all, like a flash in the pan, yes like a dream. Life is important, but the actual meaning of it all is held from us, perhaps we need the crap we go through, perhaps it forms us, makes us who we are. Perhaps our wounds will be our glory, our pride, our crown so to speak. One thing the reward of seeking truth and love is the ability to grow in love, ever more fully and broadly, and freely. For each of us it is different, so best not to compare. Since we each of our own unique hurdles to overcome.
Peace
mitch