When you are not feeling up to par, know that you are loosening the bonds that bind you. No longer think that feeling unlike you want to feel means anything but that you are growing in freedom. Let it be a good sign when you feel unsettled. You are a pioneer in life. When one leaves the country he was living in and sails the ocean to another country, he is unsettled. Of course, he is. No matter how much he has read up on the new world he will live in, it is still an unknown. He has not yet walked on it.
You are a traveler, beloved. We can even call you a nomad. You may have a set destination, and yet you may go by a different route than you thought, or you may wind up somewhere elsewhere altogether. Of course, everyone’s ultimate destination is the same, for when you set out to travel, your objective is to locate more of Me. It doesn’t matter if you are Columbus or a tourist or going around the corner, you are looking for greater happiness, and I AM THAT.
Change on Earth is the name of the game. And you may have expected yourself to stay the same and never be in midstream. You may like to see yourself as having already arrived, yet one who is traveling hasn’t quite arrived yet. He is in process of arriving. And one who is traveling may not yet have set out. He is still packing and perhaps unpacking, not sure what to take with him and unknowing of what he will forget to take with him.
The truth is that in the world, you do live out of a suitcase. You may be in an oasis where you always want to stay, and yet certainty in the world is not certain.
In a sense, you travel through life on a wheelbarrow pushed by an unknown hand, and you don’t know when the handles will be lifted up and you will be dropped off somewhere unexpected. In the world, you can expect the unexpected. You can only pick yourself up and continue on your way even when you don’t know where you are. Most likely, you don’t know where you are in terms of the map of your life and your journey. What you can be sure of is that you are not at a standstill, even when it seems so. And when you feel restless, you can know you are on your way. In terms of the world, you are always on your way.
Borders fade. They disappear, and you feel uncertain without a certain banister to hold onto. So be glad when you feel unsettled. It tells you that you are on a new adventure or you are settling down somewhere that is new to you. It takes a while to adjust to a new place.
How you may feel at any particular moment is not worth your attention. It is not necessary to take the temperature of your life every so often. Perhaps you don’t need an accounting of your life or your moods. Today your life is a pasture you walk through. Tomorrow is another pasture or another terrain you walk through. The weather may change, but what does that really have to do with you. The truth is that, regardless of the weather, regardless of how you may attest to what you feel, you are on your way. That is the relative world, beloveds.
In terms of the deeper levels of life, you are always in My heart, and nothing is changed, for you are, inevitably, one beautiful divine beat of My heart.