Get Out of Town!
Where you live is probably a wonderful place, but you need to get out of town. Travel is more than seeing different sights; it allows the soul to re-orient to the bigger picture. A trip to the Grand Canyon will do more for your inspirational life than another book on spirituality. There is something about being there that pulls the soul heavenward. Walk by the ocean once in a while. Stand atop a snow-capped mountain for a few minutes. Look out of the airplane window at thirty-thousand feet and see the most magnificent planet ever created.
We humans have a way of bogging down. We see the same faces. We keep the same routines. Nothing changes. At first we feel secure, and then we notice that we are not feeling anything at all. The routine has numbed us out. Our own security has become a prison cell of predictability.
The spiritual journey is like being kicked out of the Garden of Eden; it is like being called away from your comfortable condo in Ur of the Chaldees in your retirement years to become the parent of a mighty nation (Abraham); it is like leaving the comfortable but miserable slavery of Egypt to wander in a desert land in search of your soul (the children of Israel); it is like leaving your secure cabinet maker’s shop for time on the road, sermons by the sea, being murdered in political intrigue, and then being raised from the dead — never to die again.
Go somewhere drastically different. Borrow the money if you have to. Just go! The world has more to offer than your comfortable ten city blocks or the five mile radius from your farm. Let your spirit soar now and then. Have some new stories to tell. You will not find an eternal dimension sitting on you posterior and staring out of the same window or at the same screen.
Life is a journey. The distance from your head to your heart takes thousands of miles of reflection territory. We will be here when you get back — and we are looking forward to a more interesting person.
