What Will We Do?

We must finally answer the fundamental question, one that will change the orientation of our life: will we choose to follow our vision or not?  

It is a real option.  There may be some wisdom in saying no.   

Life can and will go on without us (and our dreams).  In our deliberate, temporary withdrawals we are given a taste of that reality.  The great flow of time goes on.  We are not essential.  Life does not need us.  We are gifted simply to be alive.  For now.  

We could easily follow that logic into a more permanent version of a withdrawn life of prayer and contemplation.  In whatever form that looks like for us.  

But the question still reverberates: to be or not to be?  

What is it that you want in the end? That is the real question.  

And there is ultimately no one else who can answer it.  There is no right answer, no best answer, and yet no non-answer.  We must answer. The universe is lingering in wait for our response.  What will we do?

What will we do?

That question echoes into eternity.  It awakens something within us, some primeval calling to the very Source of life itself.  We are like Moses standing before the Holy One in the burning bush, with no one else to witness the event.

It is just us and Them.  Many will not believe us.  We may not believe it ourselves at times.  But it is harder not to.  It is harder to ignore the ten rounds of vindicating plague miracles, no matter how crazy the vision.  

That’s why no one can go there for you.  No one else can vindicate your truly courageous and creative experiment.  Not even those closest to you can know the intensity of the flames in that bush.  They are enough to convince us forever. 

The Creative Spirit that inspires our vision knows what we need, and what we do not.  

There are so many things we think we need. Most of those luxuries, however, would actually rob us of the essential struggle we need for the journey.

We get enough, and only enough.  There is mercy in our limitations.  Whatever great feats we are being called to we are called within our limits.  We can not avoid or escape ourselves in the process.  We must become ourselves! 

Slowly but surely we hone in on the very essence of our being.  We say “yes” to life and all that it might bring us.  We step forward into the mystery of a vision that is ourselves.  We believe without seeing.  And it changes the way we see life before we even see it.

That is the moment of true being.  That is when life gets very good.  

In the end we do have a decision.  Saying no means saying yes to something else.  

Sticking with what you know may not take you where you think.  But if you are willing… in the unnerving, off-balance of saying yes, we may just find hope.

And that is the good stuff.