“These are extraordinary times that call for extraordinary courage as we come to the edge of what is known and unknown, again and again.  This is the grace and grit of true transformation, and it calls for wisdom and the practices of the Ages.”

For many of us, the compelling need to question life is a yearning for something intangible, felt and not seen, that comes again and again.  Sometimes we pay attention, and sometimes we don’t, only to be reminded later, or too late.  And sometimes, life hands us the question, kindly or not, a knock on the door in the dark of night, or a dream that wakes us in the day.  

However we arrive, through subtleties and the sweet hints of something more, or through discontent, dis-ease or disaster, we are always circling around to the fundamental questions and quest of life.  To love and be loved, to know that our lives do make a difference and that we do have a contribution to make.  We are under the influence of this inescapable mandate.  This is what moves us and it speaks to the transformative impulse that is alive and well.  

We are always on this journey, and it carries us into ourselves and out again in a spiral of deepening significance. With reckonings and awakenings that quicken the pulse and ensure our movement, we are inevitably drawn to an edge of new potentials and discoveries.  We can stand and take small steps forward or we can resist and flee.  When the next step risks the fall into the unknown dark caverns, we fall anyway because it is the want of transformation.

We build a structure.  It stands and then it falls.  We are nurtured by the mother, and then terrified of her annihilation.  The father’s hand sparks anger, and then bolts of lightening, too.  Who is who and what is what?  First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, and then there is a mountain.

Life gives us the rhyme and reason for our own incarnational season.  In the discovery, we come closer to our most holy potential, and the essence of being.  We are charged to sustain the light, and then again, the light fades.  This is the way of transformation, and the way of the seeker, the pilgrim and the sojourner.  It is the way of imbuing our lives with integrity and fullness, ever becoming more the wonder of soul and spirit.
 
You will know the calling by its seriousness.  From where you stand, take all you know to be true or not, and come to the edge.  Awaken your great desire.

This is the invitation.  May destiny and a higher will fulfill themselves in all of us.