Posted by Marcos on February 06, 2003 at 11:35:35:
In Reply to: On the map? Like the pillar at Beth-El, maybe... posted by PS on February 04, 2003 at 07:45:06:
: : ~I would like to make that step, but I dont even know where to step to, I dont know where that
: : street "the rest of my life" is at.
: I don't think you will find it on the map. The important thing is to know you are on it.
: We confuse practical nomizing aspects of our lives with the search for sacred purpose and destiny. We can build a temple, so to speak, but there are no shekinah fog machines on the market now. I am always temple-building (in a spiritual sense), but I still have to wait and watch for the intersection of the sacred with the profane. If we cannot map the conduits, we surely cannot create them (or choose their locations). The temple I build is like an advertisement that I am waiting, looking, expecting; it is both an expression of my hope and a memorial of my remembrance; however, my holy of holies may not be the location where God will reveal Himself anew. Our temple-building now is more a memorial-building, like the pillar Jacob set upright at Beth-El to chronicle the conduit he stumbled upon. It is a recognizing of the presence of the sacred, a learning to watch for those glimpses of glory and a resolve not to miss them, and a readiness to chronicle the appearance. But you are the temple.
~Thanks for your response. Again, it gives me a lot to think about, and it helps me at a difficult time.