“Pushing against pre-destination.”

 

H,

 

The biggest lie out there is this: we cannot be better than we are fated to be. It is the way we call moods destiny, and inclinations destiny, and likes destiny and how we are born, destiny. We crown all these things king and mix up the idea of being who we are in eternity to being who we are now, in this moment and for this time. We are not yet in the shape of God. This is what these damn exercises are about.

 

The whispers are the counterpoint to this grand idea. We need to push against it. We cannot accept this; we cannot go gently into the night. We must always look up and never down, forward, and very rarely backward.  We are not made to be only what our imagination can dig up. We are made in the mind of God.

 

This is why all these prescriptions for greatness are pointless at the end. The ones we find in books and flyers and books that should really be flyers. There is nothing there for us, but the old song remixed as the new stuff. It is man or woman telling woman or man what he or she can be. There is something more wonderful on the horizon. The truth of who we are in the fullness of time and eternity.