Awakening

The transformational journey of death and resurrection
is the only real message.

It makes you indestructible.

The real life, God's life, is running through you and in you already.

But allowing it to flow freely doesn't come easily.

When you do, the spiritual journey really begins.

Up to that moment it is just religion.

Everything up to then is creating the container,

but you have not yet found the contents;

you are creating the wineskins, as Jesus says,

but you are not yet drinking the intoxicating wine.   

Gateway to Silence: 

From death to life     ~R. Rohr

Rohr's words make me wonder if, perhaps, 

we each get to choose

when we begin the "second half of life"--

the losing and leaving phase.

I suppose it could begin at any age.

I suppose it could be offered again and again.

I suppose we could choose to avoid it altogether.

It appears we each have different expiration dates,

and we are given divine clues that signal

(if we're paying attention)

the awakening

that comes through letting go and leaving.

Just wondering...