One Sunday morning in late November many years ago, when walking home from church, our early elementary aged, and youngest son pointed to the far eastern horizon and asked an important question, “What’s it like past there?”
“I don’t know,” I responded. “How about we go find out after lunch?”
Once the noon meal was done and cleaned up, we put on warm jackets, snow pants, hats, and mittens and walked to the back fence behind our home. Then, with assistance, I helped him over the fence and then got over myself.
We walked through a pasture and then over another fence into a freshly tilled corn field. We walked and walked over the uneven ground until we came to the next fence, the place where he had pointed to a couple of hours earlier.
We paused at this fence and looked to the east. There, we saw more fields, more fences, a small woods, a pond, and after that more fields. We just stood there and looked.
Finally, he reached up, took my hand, and said, “So that’s what it looks like. It just keep going.”
“Yes, it does,” I replied.
And when he was ready, we turned around and walked back toward home. What was unknown was now known. What was pondered was now seen. What was a question was now an answer.
When we commit to a path with heart, we have to realize that the path just keeps going, and we create the path by walking upon it. In essence, the path reveals itself step by step.
Our challenge is to keep walking and to remember that the journey is a pilgrimage for greater meaning and purpose in our lives. Each step is a step toward being more connected to our inner light and to our shared divinity. Each step is a step to being more connected to the oneness that surrounds us all, and the divinity that is present in each and every one of us.
For when we discover this oneness, we understand that we are all walking different paths to the same destination. So, keep walking your path with heart. It is a sacred journey.
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