Where are you headed?

The false self is not really bad or evil, but just inadequate to the big questions of love, death, suffering, God, or infinity. God allows and uses all our diversionary tactics to get us to move toward our full and final destination, which is divine union—and thus wholeness. That is how perfect and patient divine love is: Nothing is wasted; even our mistakes are the raw material to turn us back into love.

                                                                                    Richard Rohr

_____________________________________________

Where are you headed?

Where am I headed?

What are the values we hold?

The goals we set to move us toward those values?

The steps we plan to achieve those goals?

The fact is, we are all just going home

We came from that we do not understand and cannot capture

From what can only be called mystery

Although we try to contain it in an inadequate concept called God

But would be well advised to simply call love

And we return to that same place

Divine

Union

Or perhaps better

Re-union

We make it hard

This journey

With our choices

Our errors

With our addiction to fear and hate

Greed and power-lust

But this reality

The one (if we choose to anthropomorphize)

Keeps drawing us on

Back into itself

Back into ourselves

And no matter what we do

No matter what choices we make

No matter what allegiances we choose

Still Sacred draws us back

Using it all

The good, the bad and the ugly

To move us

Forward, forward

To that compass point that is

Wholeness

Love

Everything in the sacred alchemy is changed

Transformed

And we are drawn toward love

Toward God (yes, I will go there)

And at the same time toward our true self

Puled inexorably back

Through the future

Into the arms of the Sacred

Into the “Father’s (or mother’s) House

Where our room awaits

And we can rest

Safe

At

Last