TRIPS AND FLIPS

I never had much chance to do a lot of traveling in my life. I doubt that I'm alone in that reality. On the few occasions that I have been somewhere new or different, I did enjoy myself, but still also looked forward to returning home.

Being in familiar places can be a source of security. We might all love to travel, but would we want to do nothing, but travel? I guess that would depend on the person.

I have known a few people who have had the chance to spend a great deal of time traveling. They did enjoy it, but admitted like with so many things if you do it long enough it sort of becomes boring. After a while the novelty wears off and even something new begins to look to much like the last place. Which is probably why after a while a lot of people crave for somewhere stable in which to live.

What is the wind that stirs our spirits to what to reach out to other places? Is it curiosity or do we simple find ourselves searching in hope of finding something that might not actually be there. I can't answer that for others.

And I certainly am not suggesting that travel is a bad thing. Learning how life is different in different parts of the world can expand our appreciation for life in general.

But while it might be a good thing to travel on one hand, if we only crave it does this in some way say there is something about our life we don't like? Again I doubt I can answer the question for everyone else.

What I'm speaking of more than anything is how change is a variable in life. We often need new experiences, hopefully of a positive nature, to awaken our senses when things are too familiar.

However, what can be a risk is when we confuse a need for change with other problems. When we ignore some flip of thoughts that makes us look at life differently and perhaps see with new eyes some part of our life we thought was okay and in reality isn't.

I think God understands what we truly need. But sometimes we are such victims of denial and so totally blind to our own real desires, we hide from what will truly satisfy.

So we travel in terms of experiences. Finding some amusement park to visit, but because we sought mere pleasure and didn't ask the tough questions about what really will satisfy the process ends up being less than satisfying.

I feel God will touch our lives and guide us in the right direction, but only when we stop kidding ourselves. He will not take us somewhere we are too afraid to visit.

But he will wait and at times allows us to go through certain experiences to help inspire us to go where we should have gone all along. Sometimes this a process that can take a lifetime to occur. Hopefully, we will be ready to listen when God wants to take us where we have never been.