All Paths Lead To Home
But it's not always a straight line.
There they were, walking together again. They paused in the zinnia flowerbed and then checked out the bushes.
If one dawdled, the other patiently waited. They do this every day.
Sometimes, one walks in front of the other, and sometimes, they walk side by side down our garden path. However, there is always an invisible link between them.
Del and I love watching them scratch among the flowers, looking for who knows what. And who can resist their delightful cooing?
People? Doves, of course!
Years ago, as we prepared to leave the home I loved, a dove couple taught me a lesson about letting go.
Now, living in a place neither of us expected to live, we watch another dove couple remind us once again how to walk a path together.
Traveling life paths isn’t like following a map.
With a map, we can see everything. We can see that if we take this road, we will get to that road.
Life paths don’t work that way.
As hard as we might try to see the whole picture and project where we are going, we can’t and won’t.
This is different from being lost.
I was jogging, thinking about something else, so I wasn’t paying attention.
I turned down the road that I thought was the one I always went on, but many minutes later, I realized I was on a different one.
It might have been no big deal if I had been in my car or bike. However, since I was walking, it would have taken me a long time to get home if I had been lost.
Regaining my focus, I stopped and listened.
By following both inner guidance and previously explored routes, I arrived home in a much shorter time than I thought I would.
Life works the same way.
We step onto paths that we think will take us to a specific destination, but divine direction is always leading us to the perfect path and into the ideal destination for us at that moment.
Life is always a surprise.
If we find ourselves on a path we didn’t mean to travel, we can look for familiar signs that will help us discern which path is the shorter and safer distance to our destination.
The trick is to set a focus, or intent, and use that as life’s divining rod, finding and following divine direction so that we travel safe and beautiful paths.
Following internal divine guidance will always yield more generosity and grace than we could imagine and will always lead us home.
It doesn’t matter that we may encounter situations that require courage and faith in divine Love. This strengthens our resolve to follow and trust how our divining rod leads us, always home and continuously into the light.
We never travel alone.
We, like the doves, are interconnected.
There is always someone patiently waiting, someone who will walk a path with us.
There is always someone going in the same direction that we are going.
All roads may have led to Rome, but all spiritual paths will eventually lead us home to the awareness and experience of the divine force and power that designs and maintains all in beauty and harmony.
Call this force whatever you wish, but know that it is only good and the only power.
It is always walking with you.
The more we recognize this, the safer and more lovely the travel.
Eventually, we will discover that we have never left home, and the path we have been taking is not to get more, be more, or own more but only to awaken and strengthen our spiritual perception.
Once we see as the Divine sees, home—as in heaven on earth—is not only a present possibility but also a present fact.