"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Door...

"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened” (Luke 11:9-10 TNIV).

There is a door...it is opened...the other side is shrouded in ambiguity...in the unknown...the mystic finds her peace in the clouds of unknowing. The timid crave certainty and absolute answers while the mystic craves the whispers of the Divine that lead inward to the deserts of our souls and nourishes the mystic to move and live amongst the world.



“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite” ~ William Blake

So...the door...the open door...the hardest part yet remains - the most difficult for all on the journey to being fully alive. And that is to walk through the open door, to swallow our pride, our fears, and follow the whispers. As soon as the threshold of the door is crossed there will be the warm hand of your Savior to grasp onto. He is always waiting, always bidding, always inviting to the new, to life he uniquely created each of us for.

Walk through the door...refreshing waters await you...Life awaits you…

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to” (Luke 13:24 TNIV).
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