be-musings

On the way to the Serving First Nations Listening Conference this morning there was a rainbow. Big deal, some may say, if you are used to seeing them regularly. But for those of us in the Lower Mainland we are used to rain...with no rainbows. After all, a rainbow is a "promise" of something that we have never witnessed...no more rain. Well, that's a skew on its real purpose, but it works for me. The rainbow made me smile. Not only at its beauty, but at what it suddenly represented to me. A new beginning.
Many of us are on this journey together. The journey of abandoning the past and walking to the Son. The journey isn't easy. It's not "stable". It's not "safe". It's not predictable. It scares the heck out of many of us. But the journey has begun. We all face a choice fo whether to press on or to turn back in fear. To rely on our old ways. To rely on our own selves. God honours us and loves us no matter what the decision. But He waits for us on the journey. He longs for us to forge ahead to Him, instead of turning.
We all walk our own road. Most times we feel like we walk it alone. No one can know what we are feeling. No one can have experienced exactly what we have experienced. That's crap. Some amazing things have been happening in the community of the blog. We are realizing that we are not unique in our suffering. We are not alone in our experiences. And, from my perspective we are not alone in this journey to healing. We are beginning to be a community - a family. We are beginning to love. And it seems the key has been to be vulnerable with each other (what a concept, hey?).
You are not alone. I am not alone. This is an exciting time...a new beginning.