Day 078j: Fog thickens, resolve Remains … (July 01, 2019)
“I am a pilgrim, yes, and yet my pilgrimage has been at times wandering and often unmarked. Indeed, no single decision I have ever made has led in a straight line to where I now find myself. There were time when I peeked down some roads and took but a few steps before turning back. At other times I followed roads fully that came to a dead end and others that got me lost at too many intersections. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been but a circling or a doubling back. In truth I have walked through the Dark Wood of Error any number of times. I have frequently known something of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, and yet not always in that order. The names of many snares and dangers have been made known to me, and yet I have seen them clearly only while glancing back. Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires unmet and goals unattained, and often I have received better than my efforts deserved. More than a few of my fairest hopes have rested on bad choices. As such, I recognize I am an ignorant pilgrim, stumbling across a shrouded and jagged valley. And yet despite all this – despite all my errant hubris and wayward vector, I have at the very least chosen to ever continue onward, and now looking back upon it all, I am unable to shake the feeling that I have been led – from within as much as from above – with both goodwill & grace through every step along the way.” ~ via Wendell Berry
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