FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
Comedienne and Actress Gilda Radner once said:
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity."
“Delicious Ambiguity.” What a phrase. How amazing it is to find beauty in the unknown; to understand that life isn’t about any one destination; it’s not about arriving, but rather it is about the journey. Once you’ve arrived at your goal, there’s always someplace new to travel to.
People who hike, who REALLY hike, don’t do it because they want to arrive at a particular place. Usually they hike somewhere only to turn around and hike back. It’s really about enjoying the hike… the views, the sights, the experience.
The beauty of the journey of life, however, is that it CAN have a perfect ending. I was at a funeral today, and although Martha was very ill for quite some time, what people remembered, what they spoke about, was how full her life was, how much she loved God, and how she was now in her eternal reward. The perfect ending. Not in the here and now where things are temporary and fade away; but in the eternal.
How do you see your journey?
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