Are you walking a well-trodden path? Are you fully alive or going through motions? Maybe it's time to get lost, take a risk, shake it up. In the process of being disoriented, you may find new riches. Let me know.
Ever CHOOSE to get lost? In An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor writes about how we normally follow the predictable, beaten path for various reasons. It's usually the shortest way from point A to B. We can see where we put our feet and where many others have trod. It's proven. This is pretty normal. So, why change? Why get lost? Brown postulates that 'once you leave the cow path, the unpredictable territory is full of life. True, you cannot always see where you are putting your feet. This means you can no longer afford to stay unconscious. You can no longer count on the beat-down red dirt path making all of your choices for you. Leaving it, you agree to make your own choices for a a spell. You agree to become aware of each step you take, tuning all of your sense to exactly where you are and exactly what you are doing....Before I know it, I am lost in the lives of ... people as well...By the time this unknown road dumps me back onto a highway I know, my detour has cost me ten minutes-a fortune, at the fevered pitch of my day-which I gladly pay for the liberating proof that i am still able to leave the thin paths I have worn with my frugal, fearful hooves." (p. 72-3)
Are you walking a well-trodden path? Are you fully alive or going through motions? Maybe it's time to get lost, take a risk, shake it up. In the process of being disoriented, you may find new riches. Let me know.
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Bonny
6/26/2014 03:02:52 pm
Things that make you go hmmmmm....
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