ON BECOMING ONED

Seek. That is the reason we are born...to seek and to find our own star.

To be a seeker, we first must know, then realize, what it is that we seek. Our reasoning mind is how we learn, how we come to know, but we must go to our Soul for realization.

Some seek wealth, others health, still others the love of another human being. I suspect we all start out seeking one of those or something like it...that's probably how we are surprised to learn we're looking in the wrong direction. It's like getting on an elevator, expecting to go horizontally...being surprised when we go up/down instead of to our left/right.

I'm a believer that all roads lead to God...we each must head in the direction we're called to and shuck our shields as we go, learning and leaning more toward the unknown than the known. Some of us take a road straight down into hell...some head neither up nor down, just keep moving forward...some few from the first head upward.

Many of those who become intimate with the fires learn the uselessness of self-will and are graced with surrender.

Those who walk forward, only forward, are a study in that old rocking chair syndrome...going back and forth, back and forth,  sincerely believing they're getting somewhere. Going forward, only forward, ensures they'll not make a mistake, but they won't get anywhere either.

Those few from the first who head upward will have to speak for themselves...I've never known any.

All this is by way of saying that we each determine how many lifetimes our journey will take. I suspect those who do good for the singular purpose of cutting short their journey will have a long, fairly boring journey. Self determination lacks that necessary spiritual component, God.

According to me, all of us somewhere on our journey are touched by the grace of God who is and has ever been with us, within us. It is that touch, not even known by us, that sets our feet, our heart and our head all going in the same direction, and we hold our nose and take a leap of faith...out there into the unknown, in trust and gut-bucket fear.

It is there we find our own star...and know it as yours, too...and hers and his and theirs. We are Oned!

Thank you.