Life's Journey: Who and Where
Stumbling in the dark I didn't know what I didn't know I still don't So I synthesis knowing Convince myself of the most basic understanding as truth Insufficient as it may be, my maps got me this far
I am the world's most important insignificant thing And so are you I know where I'm going even if I can't see the path that gets me there Care to join me?
My identity is static and unchanging in Christ Yet my personality changes with intention Sometimes by neglect Perhaps even by the wind I am wonderfully made by God who created the world I see And the world I can't see The truths I don't know that I don't know
I once heard a mystic say that God doesn't exist because God is greater than existence. Could it be that God created some greater part of me, the part I can't know that I didn't know? The part that is everything Holy and wholly God's precious child
My path unfolds in each moment through the miracle of presence Bound together in time by the mysteries of consciousness, memory, and awareness Pointing to an unknowable depth, incredible promise of grace, overwhelming presence of love Yet designed for me to access? Differentiated and accommodated to the simple steps of my feet, desire of my heart, seeking of a truth that can both define and lead me
God has a plan but it can't be read backwards Somehow it starts and ends with salvation in Christ Moves through space and time with the confusion and sins of our freewill Nudged gently by the Spirit Powered by Divine gifting as collectively heavenly as they are uniquely yours and mine
Crashing against the rails violently God calls us forward yet we run blindly, sometimes rebeliously, side to side Pain becomes our warning system Pain not from God but pain from our distance from God's generous plan and design If we work hard enough or drift listlessly enough we can leap and fall away suddenly Our sudden distance from truth and light jars us into discomfort Not to make comfort the goal but to realize that there is a certain good and godly comfort on the Divine path It's not a comfort of flesh and details It's a comfort of transcendence and context Why would God end all suffering When we choose it so often And in choosing it we have a chance to wake up and see through it to the truth beyond our capacity to understand
Holy Spirit dances between the perfect eternal will of God and the fallen rhythm of my free will To a music too heavenly for me to comprehend But when I listen carefully Just for a moment There is a glimpse of eternity I witness a vision of a world illumined and illumining As it was and ever shall be
Even if I can only see it for a moment An infinitesimal rift into the eternal Even if I spend my whole life babbling like a fool about the unseen that I didn't see
Because somehow I caught a glimpse The unknown I can't know Yet by God's grace I can follow The mysteries that created me That I call Father Even if I can't see Him That I call Mother Even if I have no memory of touching Her That I call Jesus Even if His love and grace and mercy is beyond my capacity Come, Holy Spirit! Let my request align my simple will with your perfect plans As it was and ever shall be Amen