THE PATH

“Life is a journey,” so we’ve heard. A million times.

It feels that way, in part because our memories and imaginations divide time up into yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows, and in part because as a species we humans move about. Thanks to drivers like the Internet, a morphing climate, edge-cutting science, and ever new technologies we move about more than ever (sans pandemics!). We do so physically, but also mentally, socially, spiritually, relationally, economically, and politically as well. We are wanderers by nature. Always have been. Always will be.

Accompanying this wandering is the strong inner sense that our lives are on some kind of trajectory or path. Individually and collectively we travel this path through time and space. Always coming from somewhere. Always going somewhere else.

But what if the path itself is the destination?

We so focus our lives on their content…the people, places, things, thoughts, feelings, and experiences! What about the process? After all, the process is actually the path by which the content of our lives comes into being, right? So what happens if we focus our attention here?

Where am I going with all this? (pun intended)

Many have taught/teach that when Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)) he was exclusively saying, “I, Jesus, am the one and only path to your ultimate destination (God/the Father/heaven). No one else matters!” 

But what if he wasn’t? 

What if he so identified with the “journey” nature of our being that he saw himself as one with the path itself…and then spoke for it? What if he was saying, “Look to my life as a way of engaging with your own path. I will show you how. If you do, you will find your ultimate destination. You will experience your own truth…your own True Life.” 

What if he meant, "THIS MOMENT IS YOUR PATH…YOUR DESTINATION."

TODAY.

LET’S GIVE THE WORLD & OURSELVES A NEW GIFT.

LET’S THINK ABOUT ENGAGING WITH OUR OWN PATH.