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.. we have reach ‘that point’ in the journey, there is no road map! It doesn’t show up in the A – Z, the satellite navigation is silent, dead silence! This is one of those rare moments when we wish the sat nat will say something, anything! Lead us somewhere, anywhere, take us round and round the same route, even into the pond, but just lead, guide please! Anything but this silence. Compass is not turning either, not sure where we are facing or backing, we can’t google, we don’t know where we are. We have no name, no bearing. There is no one to ask as there is no one around, no guide, no counsellor, just us , our heartbeat and the wild animals. Somehow the animals seem to know where they are and where they are going, they don’t have that bewildered look I have, yet not a single one is holding a map, looking at a sat nav screen or asking his neighbour for directions, they just seem to know!
We all reach that stage in our life, where there is no road map, no one has been on this road before. Even if some had been, they are not around to ask, we are breaking into new frontiers, there is no precedence, no manuals, no faqs answered, no examples, you can’t google it, you can’t call a friend, you can’t 50/50 to arrive at the answer, you can’t ask the elders, the sage, your mentor etc! They don’t know, they can’t help, they are not here! They haven’t been on this path before, it is unknown territory. You and you alone have to braze the trail.
Like the animals, you have to rely on a different method of knowing, you have to learn to read a different map, a map that is not available to the physical eye. You have to learn to listen to your guts, to quieten your inner man and ‘hear’ from above. A hearing that the physical ear can not pick. The navigation of the spirit. The inner voice that tells us to turn right or left.
The ultimate direction is not from any man but from above. “Speaks to us deep within”, we ask. Selah!
Beautiful Ivory 