In store for us all.

When I was a child, I encountered the world as a child. The sun had been placed in the sky for me alone.

What a revolution, to put away childish things and understand that the skies are for us all. My neighbor walks under the same sun.

Today, peering out my window into the growing dawn, how can I further grow? What new realization will remake my world?

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Will I come to learn, finally, that you take individual interest in me? Will I have come full circle?

Let me grow into myself, Lord.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I make ready to become myself?

Reading:

“We do not receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us.” — Marcel Proust

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“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” — A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman)

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“But when I became a man, I put away childish things.” — 1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)

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Is this real?

The winds blow away the leaves I had carefully piled. In the face of overwhelming force, was the effort to tidy my yard futile?

The wind, invisible, is it an unseen reality?

I can stack a pile of wood and see it tomorrow, can feel its weight. The winds may blow, yet still the logs persist. How real is the wind then?

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Is this place, this world, the real world? Or does it hide another, more important reality?

Let me peel back layer upon layer, Lord, that I may see clearly the real world around me, even the invisible parts.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I truly see reality?

Reading:

“The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.” — Annie Dillard

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“All that is seen is but a curtain; behind it moves the eternal.” — Meister Eckhart

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“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” — 2 Corinthians 4:18 (KJV)

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Made for whom?

Did you make the mountains for me, Lord, or for all of us?

If they are for everyone, what miracle that we all benefit! We are all differently situated.

One of us needs water — from the mountains comes the river.

One of us needs hope — over the mountains comes dawn.

I need a home — into the mountains, and up and up, go I.

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O Lord, thank you for the mountain.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I be truly grateful today?

Reading:

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

— John Muir

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“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.”

— Psalm 121:1 (KJV)

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Out of the blue.

A knock at the door, when I thought all were asleep.

A storm, out of clear skies.

When I thought all was arranged, calamity comes to upend the tables.

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Let me, Lord, see how surprise is a part of your creation. Grant me acceptance, even as I would hide from the knock at the door.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I have acceptance, even of surprise?

Reading:

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.” — Wendell Berry

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“Man proposes, but God disposes.”

— Thomas à Kempis

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“A man’s heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps.”

— Proverbs 16:9 (KJV)

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