Greetings Dear Reader,
“‘Go back?’ he
thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to
do! On we go!’ So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in
front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a
pitter.”
If we look at Bilbo flustered by the consumption of his food
and mess in his home at the beginning of the tale, he is quite common. By the time we reach the Goblin caves in the
Misty Mountains, things are vastly different.
He understands he has to move forward.
The road has gone far from the door where he ran out without
even a handkerchief. Trading his walking
stick for a sword had changed him. The
company of dwarves has changed him. He
has found the courage that always lived in him and he is a different Hobbit.
My dad used to express something whenever went to a place
with great natural beauty like the ocean or a national forest. He would stop everyone in what they were
doing and say, “Look now because it will never be the same.” He understands the constant change in the
world and tried to teach it to us.
Further we not only live in a world that is constantly
changing, but we are also different every day. We
are further down the path for ill or for good.
One cannot go back to what was.
Even if we could and all were exactly the same, we are different. When I visit the stream where my Sons were
baptized to pray for them, I notice just how different the place is. It is the same location but many things about
it have changed.
Memories are like that.
We want everything to be just as it was in that time, place, and
moment. What we fail to see is that the
moment then was ours for that time. This
moment now is unique and has its own story for us. The story is best when we see that no matter
what the moment holds, Jesus is there loving us and speaking to our lives.
His instruction is always to go forward. Moving forward may mean returning to places
where we have been but it never means returning to a time. We may return to a home, a job, or a leisure
pursuit that we have experienced before.
We and it will be different and we must approach it that way. Everything moves forward even if it seems the
same.
This is why we must love everyone in every moment. They are not the same person they were even a
moment ago. Judging anyone on yesterday
is to fail to see today. I am not saying
that there are no consequences or justice.
I am saying that I am supposed to love you every moment no matter what
you did yesterday or even ten seconds ago.
I have begun to think of it this way. What you did that was wrong yesterday is on you. You made the choices and you did wrong
whether intended or not Dear Reader. How
I treat you today, however, based on what you did yesterday or in the last
minute is completely on me. I am
required to forgive you, love you, and make room for you to grow through grace
and mercy.
The only way is forward.
The only attitude is that of love.
We must look for it from Christ and show it to others in every
step. The road goes forward no matter
where we think we are going. Each day
and each instant is the opportunity to move forward. This is the power to love, forgive, and
find joy in our fellow travelers if we are willing to do so. Tell me something about you that will help
find more joy in you Dear Reader. We can
talk about it as we move forward.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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