I was reminded today of my beloved rolling stone, my dad, now long gone to heaven, but still impacting my daily life. My mom often said of him, “he could not stay still”. I often feel that yearning in me, almost daily seeking to hit the road to somewhere else. I see it in my brothers and sister and now glimpse it in my children. A friend sent me the attached video, its audio and imagery set me to yearning. I was once to give a eulogy for an ancient and most loved family member. As I talked to a prodigal friend long back under our Father’s roof about my inadequacies of the task he said something that I have never gotten over. It went something like this; ‘We rage against death because we were originally made to live forever. Now locked in the sin-sick bodies but with eternal souls, death is incomprehensibly unfair and mean.’ I don’t know how to tie all this together but it has something to do with going with God, this narrow trail I am on, often with no blazes but with audio (The Word) and imagery, the earth, that always seems to keep my gathering no moss. Happy trails—that I truly hope are always with and to God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6eNmGxnbQ
The video that prompted this blog. Thanks Steve for sending it to me.
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