Making the Journey

 

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 Meditation for 12 Days of Christmas

"If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things, if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the Shepherds? Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary? For each one of us there is a desert to travel, a star to discover, and a being within ourselves to bring to life."

I love the graphic artistry of Michale Podesta--and this one in particular has a wonderful blue background that speaks of the ocean of life into which we journey.  The lighter we travel, the saying goes, the more chance we have of picking up God who comes as deftly as a hitch-hiker who we discover later is not so much of a random hiker after all. 

"Then Jesus went about among the villages teaching. ⁷He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. ⁸He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; ⁹but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics."   Mark 6: 6-9