Open Seas

I hope your life is like an adven­ture on open seas. Fol­low­ing in the wake of oth­ers is safe but very tedious and bor­ing. Jesus was a con­formist in the non-essentials but a non-conformist of the Spirit. I hope you are too. Most peo­ple have that back­wards. They try to be non-conformist exter­nally, but inter­nally they fol­low one crowd or another. They put a lot of time, atten­tion, and money into being super­fi­cially dif­fer­ent, but miss the act of real courage: spir­i­tual unique­ness.
It is not the Jesus had a new idea about love. It is that he was will­ing to let it sail beyond the buoys. He turned it loose. He released it from its accepted moor­ings, and let it float to lep­ers, demo­ni­acs, Gen­tiles, and all oth­ers need­ing it. For that he was con­demned to death. His res­ur­rec­tion was proof that God was not will­ing to let that much lov­ing cre­ativ­ity stay in the grave.
As a human, it is dif­fi­cult not to imi­tate oth­ers (wear­ing a toga that fits all sizes sure would be less expen­sive than hav­ing to re-fill the closet each time you change sizes). The annual IRS forms remind you how well cat­e­go­rized we can all become. The same it true each time you fill out a form or use your credit card. You are a num­ber fit­ting into a sys­tem.
Do not worry. I am not a six­ties left­over look­ing for exter­nal unique­ness. I am like you — a per­son with a unique call­ing on this planet and deter­mined to ful­fill it as a divine mis­sion. Right now the polit­i­cal process is try­ing to dock us in one har­bor or the other. Me? I think I will stay on the open sea. There is where the adven­tures of life are found. The hori­zon beck­ons me more than the dock. The lone craft can­not hide in the flotilla.
Eyes ele­vated to great dis­tances are not focused on triv­i­al­i­ties. Dis­tant shores are more invit­ing. The jour­ney in rough seas to get there are tests of soul designed to make us stronger. We want to arrive mature. For how­ever rou­tine your job may be today, let your soul sail on open seas. Notice how you relax when your inner gaze is ele­vated. Enjoy the adven­tures of the Spirit.