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"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is amazing all the places that a person can go in a half a year, both in this physical world and in the inner world of one's heart! I have been traveling nearly non-stop since my last post. My travels have taken me around Czech and from Czech to Germany, Latvia, the States, Sweden, Holland... always returning to Czech for some time before packing my bags again and heading out on a new adventure. The reasons for the trips vary, but each leaves me changed and eager for more change! I have been reading about Abraham and how he left his country, his people, his family and went to an undisclosed place. In other words he had no idea where he would end up when he left! My travels always have some ticket connected to them. I always have a departure time and place, and with it an arrival time and place. He didn't have that comfort he just packed and left not knowing. Sometimes my trips don't turn out like I think they will, getting stuck in Germany for a night because of missed flights... taking bus half way across a country just to save a few bucks... but still there is a destination even if the times get messed up! But that didn't stop Abraham from going far. Maybe Goethe had Abraham in mind when he said the above quote, or maybe he had those of us who are starting new adventures every day, not knowing where we are going, in mind. I have been thinking so much, now at the beginning of 2006, that I have NO idea where I will end up this year! I have no clue all the places and people I will meet this year! I don't know how I will get there, or whose hand will be extended for me to shake when I get there. I don't know where there is, BUT like Abraham went, I want to GO! Maybe I will go to far away lands that I have not been to before- I want to GO! Maybe I will go deeper into my heart, deeper then ever before- I want to GO! Some days to go far can just mean to take that next step... and some days it can mean to cross new boarders, boarders of the heart, or boarders on the map! Maybe far can only be defined by the one traveling, but one thing is for sure: far is not staying in the same place, whether on the surface of the earth or in the heart! So, I will GO this year... where?- I do not know; when?- no clue; how?- I can only imagine! I don't want to stay in the same place... so, I will GO and GO FAR WITH GOD!
