THE SLOW EDGE

Traveling along the edge of reason can be a slow arduous trek at time. There is always the gap between conventional reason and spiritual wisdom. Sometimes it is easy for what seems logical to actually lack reason on the spiritual plain of reality.

The other day when I driving to finish an errand this thought came more vivid into my mind than at other times. I look up at the sky with the few clouds and suddenly it just hit me that what I was seeing was not all there is. It was a scene I had view on countless occasions, yet on this time life just transcended the traffic, pollution and all the usual problems.

I don't think it was as much the scenery as the thoughts flowing through my mind at the time. The reality of the Lord weighed heavier on my soul that on other occasions.

This for me was because of the fact that in the midst of given ordeal I had witnessed the hand of the Lord touch in some very intimate and special ways. And that triggered a more acute awareness that my surroundings really were transitory and not permanent.

How easy it is to take so long and come so slowly to such an edge in our thinking. For no matter how long we live the basic chore of being can consume us. It can become our god and reality if we allow it too.

That doesn't mean we can discard the routine that orders our day. We have to breath, eat, work and do countless other functions, which consume our thinking and time.

So it is easy to get sidetracked and to tell ourselves, "that is what Sunday is for" in terms of inspiration. The only thing is that Sunday comes and we can still be plague by life in so many ways.

It would be wonderful if somehow the opposite would become the reality and Sunday's inspiration kept us touched all week long. I know there are other times of fellowship too, but even those can elude at times in terms of granting us a lingering sense of inspiration.

And I don't see that as anything other than a part of life. One that God knows and understands. That is why I think there are times when he can touch us in the midst of the ordinary.

His spirit can remind by a word or image of how we do need to keep to remember what lies beyond our horizon of thinking. That is the sight one can only have through faith.

It will only end up blurry for those who can't see beyond flesh and blood. Who consume their lives in the vanity of pursuits that only satisfy for the now.

We can't avoid being susceptible to such influences and we are called to be faithful in our lives. But that kind of faithful can never replace the one we need to have with our lord. For it will always have eternal relevance that survives long after this life passes.