The journey that we’re on is an interesting one, isn’t it? What? Yeah, you know; our journey now, in this life, at this time, on this big earth which is both spinning and orbiting all at once. It’s making me dizzy, all that spinning, orbiting, twisting and turning. So much so that I think I’m gonna hurl! No man, it’s not hurl; it’s hurtling. That’s what you’re doing through cosmic space, man; you’re hurtling through space gravitationally attached to the third rock from the sun, Mother Earth.

Whoa, are you going deep here? Yep, and in the words of a bright young lad with a scruffy beard and man-bun; it’s about to get real. Why? Well, because, when I look back at the journey to this point, it has been an adventuresome ride for sure. Twists, turns, smooth and rocky have all had their run of the place and have captained the ship at one time or another. Who could’ve or would’ve written our stories to be the way that they have turned out so far? Who could orchestrate the coincidences, happenstances, peculiarities, and ironies of it all? Hmmm.

It’s interesting in part because we don’t know where we’re really going in this life or where we will end up, or even how we’re going to get there; wherever “there” is. We can’t and probably don’t want to see the future. Oh, we’d like to see the future as we’d plan it for sure, but that doesn’t seem to be the way that it works. Seeing the future would scare some, would make some joyous, and would make some sad. Alas, we don’t even know why we’re going “there.” My mission may not be the mission. My purposes may not be the purposes.

We don’t even know what we will physically look like once we get there. A couple things are for certain on this point however: my vision will be worse (readers please), my hearing will be lessened (what’d you say?), and my stamina and strength will be diminished (please find the TV remote for me).

It’s kind of perplexing, this journey thing that I’m talking about. We can ask, “Are you and I moving forward or backward, or simply treading water to stay in the same place on this journey; and why is that?” But here’s the weird part: while asking have we gone backwards or stayed the same, we have in fact moved forward from the time that we looked backwards. I’m confused, are you? Where are you Mr. Albert Einstein and your theory of relativity explanations when I need them most? I know I should have payed more attention in physics class during college. I was just trying to pass the test, man.

In regards to this journey thing, have you been to a great or perhaps not-so-great place recently? Where was that place and what did it look like? How’d you get there anyway? Was the way there a straight path or a round-about one? Was it a smooth or rocky trip?

The place may not have a physical location or be a destination at all. It could be a place that involved relationships, circumstances, emotions, feelings, finances, employment, or a spiritual sense. In these instances, the great places are easy to deal with, but it’s the not-so-great, or even bad places that are more challenging.

The circumstances surrounding the less than great “places” may be filled with questions that take time to ponder and process so that sense can be made out of the situation. The time that it takes to do that is not set in concrete and sometimes the questions have no answers and the answers have no questions. Sometimes we even have to question the answers. Now that I’m old, I question both the answer and the question. Sometimes a “what’s the question behind the question” inquiry is appropriate.

There is a lot going on around us where our journey is concerned; some aspects we can see, but most others we can’t and don’t. We are pretty good at seeing the small picture, but not so well at seeing the bigger one. So, instead of just saying that my journey is my journey and your journey is your journey, what if we simply yet powerfully came together and said “let’s journey together.”

Like the principles of lines and rays in geometry, these journeys can do one of three things: they can run parallel to each other; they can intersect at some point; or they can be skew in space never to meet.

Here’s hoping that they intersect at some point!

Journey on!

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