The Journey
I work and meet with people at varying stages and circumstances of life who are either asking the question or have asked the question,
" what is it all about?" I have found this to be true, even in those who don't acknowledge that in their pursuit of success, power, material possessions, sex, and many other pursuits ( even the perfect golf game), they are still asking the "big" question, "What is my purpose?"
Our purpose or dreams, as we understand them within the framework of a lifetime or eternity, often have a way of changing midstream. Hearts soften, illusions are exposed, success is re-defined, wrongdoings catch up to us, priorities change. This is the journey of life. And in this journey, there is always going to be change. A humble and broken heart becomes teachable, pride is shattered and paradigms are radically altered.
Many of us have found ourselves cruising along the freeway of life, admired and seemingly trouble free, when crisis hits like a freight train and everything we believed in and stood for is found to be distorted somewhere among the wreckage that may be our life.
While we may not see it in the chaos of our brokenness, an examined life looks back in hindsight at many of our adversities and personal traumas and can come to some form of understanding as to why certain events needed to take place to get our attention.
The journey of life becomes a rhythm of seasons, seasons of new life, a maturing essence, a grateful harvest, and inevitably, a time of age and death.
The journey often begins when we examine the paradigms we held which preceded the chaos and confusion we may have found ourselves in. The journey begins when we submit to the reality that perhaps our paradigms were based on the ever shifting sands of subjective truth and of our own, perhaps blinded, understanding of right and wrong.
What a journey it can be if we choose to begin!
" what is it all about?" I have found this to be true, even in those who don't acknowledge that in their pursuit of success, power, material possessions, sex, and many other pursuits ( even the perfect golf game), they are still asking the "big" question, "What is my purpose?"
Our purpose or dreams, as we understand them within the framework of a lifetime or eternity, often have a way of changing midstream. Hearts soften, illusions are exposed, success is re-defined, wrongdoings catch up to us, priorities change. This is the journey of life. And in this journey, there is always going to be change. A humble and broken heart becomes teachable, pride is shattered and paradigms are radically altered.
Many of us have found ourselves cruising along the freeway of life, admired and seemingly trouble free, when crisis hits like a freight train and everything we believed in and stood for is found to be distorted somewhere among the wreckage that may be our life.
While we may not see it in the chaos of our brokenness, an examined life looks back in hindsight at many of our adversities and personal traumas and can come to some form of understanding as to why certain events needed to take place to get our attention.
The journey of life becomes a rhythm of seasons, seasons of new life, a maturing essence, a grateful harvest, and inevitably, a time of age and death.
The journey often begins when we examine the paradigms we held which preceded the chaos and confusion we may have found ourselves in. The journey begins when we submit to the reality that perhaps our paradigms were based on the ever shifting sands of subjective truth and of our own, perhaps blinded, understanding of right and wrong.
What a journey it can be if we choose to begin!
posted by Bob S at 1:06 p.m.
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