Setting Out Again

I called this image "Coming of Age" when I did it earlier today, but on a second look, it's also about setting out day by day to follow that inner urging that is God's call. I don't think I've ever felt fully equipped, fully ready, or fully trained, but I do believe that it matters somehow, and that it's all heading somewhere.

But where? I cannot say where, to what, or to whom. But something inside says that it leads to Him. He was there at the journey's beginning, and he will be there at its ending, whatever end that might be.

The words of the following poem were part of why I said "yes", and why I am here today.

"I know that I am called
The message was quite clear
and yet I cannot see the how, the why.

I feel so small, so weak
so ill-equipped for such a task.

And yet I am prepared to say YES
and undertake the risk
and enter the unknown,
Responding to the call,
Trustfully treading my way
the only way that leads to life - to HIM."
(Sr. Theresa Margaret)

"Your men will follow you to whatever end, my Lord."
(Glamdring to King Theoden, just before the battle of Helm's Deep)

Comments

[susiesneds]

This picture brings to mind what my next door neighbor is probably feeling right now. Her first-born son, the top of four, is leaving for college next week and she is putting on a brave front, almost to the point where they are bickering quite a bit. This picture portrays, to me anyhow, a mother "duck" watching one of her babies leave the nest.
{{Shudder}} Something my husband and I will confront with our own three sons in the years to come. But also something I think we have all experienced in one form or another, that breaking away process.
Bittersweet.
Great blog, by the way!

[mike]

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