December Voyage

Sailing through December

Oh, there is so much to sail through in December--betting of course that we do not end when the Mayan Calendar runs out Dec. 21st.  The poem reminds us that the journey moves past this month into deeper waters of meaning.  

I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages
and found ourselves on a great ocean voyage:
sailing through December, around the horn of Christmas
and into the January Sea, and sailing on and on....

And do take notice of those deeply moving and meaningful last lines--that the voyage is the purpose, and to press on in the voyage is where life's purpose is found.Oh these haunting last lines....

But there was no home to go home to.
There was no getting around the ocean.
We had to go on finding out the story
                                                          by pushing into it —

Boethius understood the "voyage" when he said of God...and so may we this December.

"Thou art the journey and the journey's end."