Always With Us

We can never know what is up the road just out of sight from where we walk.  It may be a bed of roses or some rocky hardship that measures not just our stamina, but our faith as well.   We cannot see what is up the road and neither can we see Who is up the road.  However, the One ahead whom we cannot see is One who has been with since before the first steps were taken.  In creation's moment of conception we came into being bearing the imprint of the Holy One who shaped and knew our unseen form.  We are from that moment never out of the sight and the care of the Holy God of Creation.  

When we cannot see what is ahead in our journey, we can know that the One who brought us into being has walked ahead and knows the way He is leading us.  A part of the holy mystery is that the One who ranges ahead is also the One who is with us.  He is ahead, but also beside. He is out there, but within us.  His promise is that it shall always be.  We hear that promise from Jesus as He said, "I am with you always, to the end of the age."  (Matthew 28:20)  Never alone and, certainly, not forgotten, or forsaken is who we are.  There has always been more to our lives than we could see.  It could always be characterized as unfolding before us.  

We may not have experienced life as such in the earlier days of our faith journey, but the more we walk the more we truly see what is behind us even as our faith enables us to see what and Who awaits us in the days still to come.  We have always gone with God.  He has always been present.  The promise proven by our past is the promise of all that is ahead.  He remains present and so He shall always be.