un-becoming

“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.

Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you,

so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

                                                           Paul Coelho

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Jesus once said that we have to die in order to be born

an odd statement that

you would think that we have to be born in order to die

but our journeys prove the point

for we are not free to become who we truly are

to reflect our divine heritage

unless we first die to our ego

die to the ways others have chosen to define us

die to our greed, our hate

our fear

die to our essential selfishness

as I face a world that seems increasingly evil

as I watch my country become a horror

as it lives under the influence of extreme selfishness

my ability to die to my own “stuff’

is increasingly challenged

I want to, and sometimes do

Go over the edge, into dark places

But I must remember that life is always

Dying and being born

Ending and beginning

Every moment what was passes away

And newness becomes possible

Every moment the self dies

And then

Resurrection

A new beginning

So in the pale light of a winter morn

As I walk through fresh fallen snow

And marvel at the purity

It will die

And be born

again