GENESIS OF LIGHT

What special moments come when we see a sunrise for the first time. Those times when life has some point of change.

And the mind sees for the very first time. A new light comes before the eyes and we see what we didn’t before.

Then we see all those things that were always there, but with new understanding. This can happen at any point in life.

In the spiritual walk of faith this should happen so often. Because we should always be in process of growth.

Some do and others do not. They reach some point and just stop. Perhaps being tired or just having lost the inspiration.

So the camp out on familiar ground and pitch a tent. It is all they want. Whatever else there is to learn just isn’t important to them.

But to stop wanting more from the Lord is truly sad. To just say this is all in life I want to know is also a tragedy.

What is so unfortunately is how this makes the person decay. You never are able to stand still.

To stop ends up in a form of retreat. Oh you can give lots of excuses. I’ve heard so many.

And they all sound great. Just don’t end up helping. It is when the eyes dull from the hope and the fire stops within that the darkness.

Oh we keep saying someday we will look for the sun again. How we will love to make it part of our lives.

But deep down the resting soul, embracing just being stagnant slowly slips below a sunset in thought. A slow descend below any light.

For that there is only sadness. The type that only gets worse as long as one stops wanting the Lord’s sunrise.

It is the nature of faith at times. To wander and get exhausted, but not treat the fatigue as a time of testing.

For the journey of faith is the soul meant to travel. And that is what we have to travel with gazes towards lights yet reached.

And that is always going to be a compass the Lord sets before us.