Opaque Guidance

“Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”― Mary Oliver, Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Knowing is a pilgrimage. It requires taking personal responsibility, born of love, to pledge allegiance to what we do not yet know. It requires relying on seemingly opaque guidance to venture into the darkness of half-understanding. We invite its gracious and surprising self-disclosure, seeking to indwell its clues to make sense of a hidden pattern. We risk our forever being changed. It is an adventure.”― Esther Lightcap Meek, A Little Manual for Knowing

Futility of shortcuts, bypasses.
Demanding others, circumstances to change, the past to return.
Or.
Taking our own journey.
Off path, eyes on the road ahead, rooted in today.
Into unknowing, inquiry, observing.
Taking the pilgrimage with intent and resolve.
To change, be changed, transformed.
Born again and again.
Curiosity rather than resistance.
Indwelling, seed sowing, fertile ground, preparation, waiting, watering, more waiting.
The makings of Advent, of springs sure return, of perpetual growth.

“Congratulations, if you have changed.”― Mary Oliver, Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver