Moving Pieces

Every once in a while we find ourselves on top of a moving something. And when we do we also find that we are static, unable to move in the face of impending danger or for the sake of avoiding the danger. This place where we sometimes find ourselves gives us some things to think about, tests our very construction and challenges us to look at the future with a keener eye. 

The desired position is where everything is controlled by our actions and desires, where we are doing all the steering. We love this because it never leaves us stretched beyond what we want or never challenges us beyond our known intellect. But life does not give that grace too often and for too long. There are times when the ship is moving on still waters and when due to the turmoil of the waters the ship cannot move forward. 

When we consider the kitchens of our grandmothers we shall realize that they attain their value from a set of three stones. Those stones have not moved in tens, perhaps hundreds of years and because of their immobility, a lot has not change and never will until the stones move. Every time we have created a meal we have had to move back to the same stones and cook the same way perhaps the same meal too. 

The mobility of the surface on top of which we sometimes find ourselves is the blessing we need to move forward, to a forward never imagined before. When we decide to embrace the challenge to make a step, with little or no certainty of where our foot is to land, we summon courage and strength previously unknown to us. We make progress happen and we move the boundaries a little further. 

To accept that the pieces will always keep moving, that there are times when we are going to jump to an unseen something, one not seen with the eye, is to embrace the concept of living. With us, there will be certainty and a wave of uncertainty, there will be moments when we are so sure and there will be others when we do not know what to be sure of. In all these moments, to keep our gaze fixed on where we are going is how we shall attain victory. 

The heart knows its home and the way there. Doubt will come in sometimes to discourage us but the road is known to us and when we put on the shoes of courage, we shall embark on this journey with the confidence required.  The further we walk, the longer we keep at this journey of moving into the unseen, the stronger we become, the less the doubts and fear and certainly the better our march.

Our dreams are often the case in which our destiny his kept and while that case is threatening to open many times, all effort dedicated to opening it is a step closer to home, to our kingdom and we should never give up on the quest.