I’m living at an intersection with traffic coming and going in at least four directions!
It’s the intersection of mystery and practicality. I’m inspired by a belief that most of life is mystery and mystical – and that I am called by and focused toward cooperating with forces I only begin to touch. I’m also feeling that my efforts just to accomplish something tangible begin to feel either overwhelming or interminably heavy and difficult to carry.
It’s the intersection of familiar and new. I know how I’ve always done things and thought about life. Much of that has work very well for me and I am not going to abandon. I’m also aware of the vitality there is in thinking in new categories and flying with the wind to other lands, other unknown grounds, and yielding fruit.” (Raimundo Panikkar, “Letter to a Young Monk.” Living Prayer, 1986)
Intersections are opportunities as well as hazards. We do, at times, have to yield the right of way. We also have to make choices about seizing the initiative and following a particular direction. I’m reminded of the wisdom that it is on Life’s Detours (a book by Dr. Wayne Oats) that much of the richness, joy, challenge, and meaning of life is found.
I invite your comments and your questions.
–Jack Price
