When one is on journey

Many issues evaporate when one is on journey.

I don't mean going on a journey. Going on a journey is much shorter than what I have in mind. That would be more like going on a trip, as in, "I need to make a short trip to the store; I'll be right back."

I am talking about going on journey. When one is on journey, one sees the great expanse of all that is ahead, but the homing call organizes all desires, and clarifies options from passions.

When one is on journey, one knows what it means to be just passing through. When one is on journey, one cultivates discipline not as an end, but as pruning. When one is on journey, there is no problem with hope.

When one is on journey, the highways are in the heart.

You can measure the health of nations and empires by assessing whether they are on journey. Once upon a time for our great nation, there was the great trek out West; once there was winning great wars; once there was the great Space Race.

Now there are interest groups, change you can believe in, HDTV ... but no more journey.

When nations are on journey, it seems easier to produce individuals also on journey. These days, this is tougher to do.

And so it turns to us for a testimony.

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Psalm 84.5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. (English Standard Version)

Psalm 84.5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. (New International Version)

Hebrews 11.13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 12.2 ... looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Luke 21.10,13 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom ... And it shall turn to you for a testimony.