Here and There

Here is on the way to there.  Here is, of course, here.  It is the present moment, the present place, and the people present in the moment called here.  It is also where God has gifted us to be in the present part of our life which makes it not only a precious gift, but a holy gift.  As that gift is unwrapped, it should be done so slowly, gratefully, and mindful that it is gifted to us by the Creator who designs and gives gifts for specific reason.  Nothing He gives to us in the present moment of our life is accidental,  coincidental, or without purpose.    

And though we are always here, we are also on our way to there.  By the time we arrive at there it has become the new here for us.  It, too, is a holy gift.  There is where we go, not with knowledge of where or what it is, but in faith that the One who is providing it has prepared it for us.  God our Father is always taking us from here to there.  Sometimes it seems the journey is too slow and deliberate and sometimes it seems like something as quick as the twinkling of an eye.  There is never where we know, but always holds forth the unfolding new in our life.   

From here to there is where God is always taking us.  Who we are is not who we are becoming.  God never seems content with us arriving in some spiritual state and settling into the status quo, but One who is always taking us into the deeper waters where dependence on self is finally seen as something which is not enough.  Going from here to there is about going to a place in our life where we must live with a greater dependence on God, or we will not make it.  It may seem hard, but it is the holy way.  We go from here to there because grace is unfolding the way forward and through a faith that enables us to turn loose of what is so that we might move toward what is yet to be.