Gueorguiev's goal was to bicycle around the world. He had many followers on his social media page, and he wrote of meeting many wonderful, generous and loving people...his writings were invariably happy, encouraging -- free-spirited.
As David Von Drehle wrote in the Post: Iohan Gueorguiev displayed his handwritten manifesto on his handlebars: 'I want to see the world. Follow a map to its edges and keep going. Forgo the plans. Trust my instincts. Let curiosity be my guide. I want to change hemispheres. Sleep with unfamiliar stars. And let the journey unfold before me.' * * * I met him through his recent New York Times obituary. It said that Gueorguiev died by apparent suicide in late summer. He was 33.
Never before having heard of this man, and, face it, knowing nothing, I let my mind flow freely: I see Gueorguiev as a man with a self-determined objective, albeit a singularly beautiful idea, who went for it.
My thinking...he went for it all on his own, and there it is. A beautiful idea, self-determined and self-driven. Self destroyed.
It is going for it through a Power greater than ourself...God...that we win/fail/win/fail/win. How else can we experience the truth about failure, the lasting pearl beyond price, and winning, a temporary event?
We find we get it right not by self-will trying but by becoming peaced. We become the peace we seek, and within our peace, we experience love and un-love, laughter and tears, hope and uh-oh.
This we experience purely and simply because we have come to trust the God of our own understanding. Through it all, we can love and laugh sometimes freely...effortlessly...sometimes not so much.
This we resist not: It is through the trust we've learned and earned that God can and does bring us Home.
Thank you.
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