The Unfolding Way

In these days I am more apt to use the word "unfolding" to speak of the way life presents itself and "becoming" as a word which describes how I go forward to meet whatever is unfolding.  I have decided what I should have known all along and that is that nothing is certain and that everything is changing.  The status quo has always seemed like a firm place to stand, but the truth is that the status quo always has some cracks in it and is actually caught up in the rest of the constantly changing creation as it unfolds in its forward movement.   

In the midst of all this which is present, but not yet seen God moves and works through His Holy Spirit to lead us toward Himself.  He draws us to Himself not through coercion because to do such would be inconsistent with the love which is His nature, but by a leading that is both persuasive and akin to the wooing of a lover who longs for the one loved.  The sacred Word teaches us again and again that we are the ones who are the object of the holy wooing.  God longs for intimacy in His relationship with us.  His actions toward us speak of love that is unconditional and unending.  He is always seen as the Father at the gate looking down a deserted road for the return of a child who spurned the spiritual heritage which underscores the essence of being.  

Like that son who has forgotten where He belongs and to whom He belongs, we have wandered into a dark place fit more devils than the saints God is calling us to become.  This becoming is what we resist as we cling to where we are and who we see ourselves as being.  We have our eyes fixed on the status quo underneath our feet while God's eternal light is shining on the cross of Golgotha as a single sign which points toward the not yet seen, but unfolding road which will eventually take us through the open gate, into the Father's open arms, and to the Home being prepared just beyond the veil.