Joining

I travel for my business and plane trips are frequently a time when I am able to steal away from the hectic day-to-day and allow "other" thoughts to come through.

Joining

On this particular trip, I found myself looking back on my life. I could see many times when I yearned to join with someone. From first wanting to join with my older brother and be included in his activities, to wanting to join and be in a romantic relationship, to wanting to join and have friendships in the first company I worked for out of college, to wanting to join with others who shared my spiritual journey. Always, desiring to join.

And as I sat on this flight, I became aware of how much in the last several weeks I've been just running through each day - from one activity to another. And while things were "accomplished" - the overall sense has been that I haven't been doing the most important thing...joining.

As I sat there I realized that the ultimate joining that I was seeking was to join with my true self in God. And I felt such a strong yearning to walk each day with the Holy Spirit. In that moment I wanted nothing more than for the Holy Spirit to become my constant companion, sharing my thoughts, teaching me to think his thoughts. And so I quietly sat and invited the Holy Spirit to teach me to join with him in God. It was a wonderful joining.

In Joy,
Michael