Blessed feast of All Saints
October 31, 2011

Oh how I adore the saints! For they are not just saints; they are sinners, like me. Seekers. Fallen people after the heart of God; which is what makes their presence in this journey such a comfort.

In the song “On The Way”, my hope was to lay out in the lyric what the journey of a saint looks like (in the great hope that I will be one someday!). We are all just travelers here; our time is short. We drift, we seek, we sometimes find; we wander, fall, and then find our way again by the reach of our loving God. We are terribly broken, awfully selfish, horribly distracted, wonderfully forgiven. It’s miraculous, wholly.

The funny thing about a journey to God is that it is never what anyone expects. My grandmother used to say, “we make plans; and then God laughs.” My own journey has, for the most part, been a series of making big plans only to have themlovingly thwarted. And so the walk has been great mystery to me; one that seems to be unwound for me and before me as I wander most cluelessly. (Thankfully!) The sincerest moment in becoming a saint is, I think, the moment you become truly willing to let go and say “God, I have no clue what I am doing, obviously. Help. Lead me. Your will be done.”

The mystery of God is the mystery of us, too; who we really are in Him is never so much revealed as it is constantly happening. We are all becoming, and will be until the day we see Jesus face to face. I for one can not wait to give him a big hug and say “whew….that was HARD! Thanks for helping me out”.

And for all you saints….let not your heart be discouraged. Bless the burdens; accept the fallings; embrace the beauty of your humanity and His divinity in it. You are becoming. You are seeking. And you are loved.