Cruciform Journey

Fellow Labourers-

When we think of a cruciform journey, we may think in a simple or a complex way. The cruciform journey is one which takes us vertically and horizontally all at the same time. It is journey that seeks to keep us in touch with the Creator and the created. Since the Creator is one we may find it easier to follow him. However, to follow him, has to be on his terms, and therein lies the crux of the matter. A surrendered life is what it takes to travel along the vertical. A life in which we lose our autonomy. But, what is an autonomous life as against one that pleases the one who gave it in the first place? Our relationship on the horizontal can be tortuous and mind boggling. And, yet harmony on this path is necessary. Because, how can we relate with him who we have not seen, if we can't relate with whom we can see. I must admit that some folks does not make it easy, but we are required to find a way. Look carefully at this extract from today's reading as we continue our cruciform journey in the midst of uncertainty.

"Life is far more than an attempt to keep our heads above water, and yet at times it feels like a suited metaphor. Like tiny rubber ducks in an oceanic bathtub, we are tossed about the rocks of fear and anger, pulled under by currents of despair and disappointment, and broken at times by the journey. Human fragility is often as startlingly obvious as the image of a bath toy in the Bering Strait. We are at times almost averse to this fragility, whether seen in ourselves or in others. Fighting to keep afloat in an unpredictable sea, we take on distracting cargo and build defensive walls—anything that makes us feel less like tiny vessels lost at sea and more like giant ships passing in the night."

Here is a quote from Mahatma Gandhi. "It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important. You have to do the right thing! It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit; but that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing! You may never know what results from your action, but if you do nothing, there will be no result."

Pax Vobiscum

Robert Stewart