I am a wanderer. I would say that I am a seeker, but sometimes I have no idea what I might be seeking, so I will stick with wanderer. This blog is more a public journal than anything. I don't claim to have life figured out. I simply stumble from mystery to mystery, and share my reflections along the way. Sometimes I feel burdened, and trudge. Sometimes? Well sometimes grace breaks through, and its time to dance.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Life happens
" If you do not offer all you have
to the Beloved,
you will live this life free of that pain
which makes it worth living. "
- Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir
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the only way to avoid pain
in its many guises
loss, hate, anger,
disappointment, fear
emptiness, isolation
is to avoid life
it can be done!
we can certainly protect ourselves from pain
we can hide behind protective walls of ideology and theology
we can cower in safe places with safe people
we can close our eyes to all of the things around us that
rend our hearts,
to battered children,
and refugees
to the plight of people hated because of who they were
created sexually
we can indeed avoid all of that
disengaging from the world
and piously reading our religious tomes
singing our songs
saying our prayers
in our sanitized bastions of virtue
but Jesus said, give up all that you have
(and that includes your safety and comfort)
and follow me
into the world
where life happens
it will hurt a little
it will hurt a lot
there will be tears and anguish
but there will also be healing and hope,
and laughter and tears,
and a life
worth the living
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