2008 hu? I wonder what happens next?
It's hard to figure out what it looks like.
I'm in this place that I don't really know
how to navigate through because it's new
and I have to learn a new language and
how to hear and how to respond to it.
I just read this book called "the alchemist."
A friend of mine gave it to me for my bday.
I've read it before. I mean what I read
before is called "the dream catcher" by irwin
mcmannus but it's the same story. This book
just doesn't use such explicit christian
words so it makes it more for the embittered
masses.
Either way, it's a story we all know and one
that we all read, and then what?
It's about finding your dream and becoming
what you were put here to become.
It is an adventure story and a romance
and for me part comedy. There is loss and
gain. There are people met on the way that
bless us and those that do us harm.
We face set backs that make us want to turn
back and there are moments of great clarity
that encourage us to go forward.
There is a great love. There is treasure.
There is a person that you are going to be
that is not who you are today and who you
will not ever be if you don't leave it all
and go where you have to.
And yes... you do have to leave it all to
get to that place. There is just no way
around that. Read these stories or read
the bible and the stories of the disciples.
They left all to follow Him.
I used to wonder if He called or required
each of us to different levels of surrender
or commitment or passion. I wondered if
it looked unique for each of us as to allow
the possibility that some of us didn't have
to go as far as others.
Now... I don't think so. I think He wants
each of us to follow this path and what is
different are the details of where and when
but not if.
The deal is that only a few of us accept this
challenge and even fewer of us allow Him to
take us through to it's end.
Not the end like death end, but the end of
the journey that fills us with freedom and
wisdom that serves us until the death end.
At the end of that season, the season of
travel and surrender and complete dependence,
there is:
time in the new place where you do the thing that
you were created to do and it fills your entire
being with purpose and completion.
treasure at the end that then allows you to
return to your love and live life with the
reward of the journey.
a job to be done after your rabbi is gone and
you go on alone to talk about the things He
told you and the miracles you saw Him do.
Those are the details that will differ from
person to person. Not the option to just not
go.
I know not many of us will. In fact, most of
us don't. I get it. We want comfort and to
do what pleases others and ourselves. We feel
like we need these other experiences in the
time allowed by our human understanding.
This does not make us failures.
It does make us less dangerous.
All of these stories so far have men as the
hero. All of the classic myths and truths
are of men that are called to go on these types
of journeys. I felt like it couldn't be that
He was calling me because I am a woman, but
He did. He is.
I'm not going to make up a story and give the
characters fake names. You don't need another
fantasy to dream about or another legend or
tale of something impossible.
I'm going to go do this for real and I'm
gonna talk about it as plainly as possible
and as truthfully as possible.
This is not optional for us as His children. It
is required and we have been dumbed down
as to not step out and therefore we are losing
the war because we have let the truth become
watery and we are not dangerous as warriors not
because we no longer know how to use our
sword but because we no longer hear nor heed
the voice of our commander.
It's not fantasy or a tale or a myth. It's a real
path and a real purpose.
It's not for everyone.
But what if it was?