Who Goes With You

You are almost there.  Don’t stop now.  Though it feels like a never-ending climb with no end in sight.  No break.  No payoff.  You’re too far in.  Too far up the hill to go around it now.  It’s your hill.  Like it or not.  Own your hill!  Accept it.  This hill is yours, and no one else’s.

The very things that wound us most are the most distinct part of our journey.  Don’t miss them.  Don’t avoid them.  Understand them.  Use them.  Re-direct them.  In those wounds - that are particularly and uniquely yours, is your strength.  Your weakness is power.

Things you want to avoid the most carry the most significant meaning.  They reveal your deepest wounds.  Listen to them.  Learn from them.  Bring them into the light.  Reason with them.  Indeed, discover in them the true source of the fear they breed.  Heed.

God will help you.  He helps us into the truth.  Don’t be afraid of the truth.  First, it will make you miserable.  Right?  The fear is that it will keep you there.  It will not.  Truth ends with only one thing: freedom.  But there is no other way to get there.  None.     

So we must go through the door or gate of truth, to enter into the next phase of our journey.  This is the only way.  There are no short-cuts.  We must identify, that is to simply articulate, where we have failed, if we are to become ourselves.

Only later, with more time, will we begin to understand why.

Remember there are powerful forces within us desperately trying to hold us back.  These powerful demonic creatures are essentially the lies we believe.  They are non-life.  They are the absence of good.  We must root them out by naming them clearly for what they are.

Once we do that, we understand their logic. We see through their reasoning. We see clearly it only leads to one place: despair.  It is NOT for our good.  We reject those lying voices.  We reject their false logic.  We reject their contaminating ideas.  And we hold onto life.

Life is the end game, and the things that bring life.  That give it away freely.  The more we refuse lies, the more the truth starts to click.  Something happens.  We break through.  We discover.  We re-learn something timeless and perfectly timely.  We experience life anew.

And that is when things start to happen.  Sure we made some good decisions along the way to lead to this.  We made some wise choices to open the possibilities.  But even now when it starts happening we can not take credit.  No, something bigger is happening than we can see.

We are simply part of it.  The flow. Momentum.  History.  Destiny.  Stars lining up.  All things merging together to open up a path for us.  It happens!  It does.  And suddenly we are walking in The Way.  The path is laid out for us.  Open.  Firm.  Our feet do not falter.  We walk.

We are not left behind.  Nothing is lost.  Nothing.

This does not mean smooth sailing.  There is no such thing.  The waters will never be still for long.  There is such a thing, though, as inner stillness, or peace, that does last.  Resolute trust.  In that stillness we find an almost supernatural stillness and strength to keep going.

That peace reminds us that where we are going is not as important as with Whom we go.  This is the truth.  All things we make or break will subside.  What matters most are the lives we touch.  Including our own.