Walking, Sailing, Journeying with God

As God’s children, formed of stardust and infused with the breath of God, we are a people who are embarked! We are travellers. We are on a journey. We are walking and living a spiritual path. When I was an undergraduate student, a friend gave me a hand drawn card with a small sail boat on it. The caption read, “A ship in the harbour is safe. But, that’s not what ships are made for”. As a people of faith, we are on a journey that leads from one generation to the next, to the next, to the next. It is not a journey where the soul interest is us. It’s much bigger than that. We are part of a much wider and all encompassing journey. That is what a relationship is like—always growing, deepening and maturing. Our job is to explore our relationship with God. To deepen our awareness of God. To live as a people of God recognizing that we are children of God who like the generations before us have been travelling across time with a wider vision of God’s way of compassion and justice.