Before I start this entry I
want to point out to you that At This
Very Moment you have absolutely
no idea where this blog is going to be taking you today. And if it’s any
consolation to you, I don’t know myself. This blog itself is a Mystery, just like so many other things
in life. In fact, this blog is like life. “How?” you ask. “ I’ll tell you how:
Just
like in life, you won’t know what will happen in this blog until it happens.
You just have to wait and see what turns up. Just like in life. In fact, it’s a
rule about life:
Rule # 16: We will only know
what will happen when it happens. We have to just wait and see what turns up.
Do you remember Abraham (Section V)? Told by God
to travel to a place God has prepared for him that he didn’t know anything
about? Well, that’s just like us: we’re always traveling toward parts unknown.
Sometimes We Think We Know but we
are sadly mistaken. All of us. Including me (who doesn’t know how this blog
entry will end up) and including you. My goodness, you can’t even leave the
house and go down to the convenience store to buy a package of sugar free gum
and a bottle of olives without something happening that you never would have
expected to happen. A few possibilities:
·
You bump into the person who will become your life-long best friend
(or even more than that.)
·
You find a five dollar bill lying in the street.
·
You bend over to pick up the five dollar bill and almost get run over
by a Snapple® truck.
·
You suddenly get an answer to a problem you’d been working on all
week—it just pops into your head when you least expect it. (That happens a lot.
It’s part of the creative process, you know.)
·
You meet a little boy who is crying because his dog just died.
·
You say hello to Virgil’s mother who’s in the story to buy some bak
choi.
·
While you’re talking with Virgil’s mother, some masked man with a gun
tries to rob the place.
·
Virgil’s mother knocks out the would-be robber with a gallon of frozen
fudge ripple ice cream.
Do you see what I mean? As is says in the book of
Isaiah, I will lead the
blind on their journey; by paths unknown I will guide them.
And then there’s the whole question of who is it
that’s speaking those words, who is doing the leading and who are “the blind.”
But by now I hope you realize that you and I are the blind ones,
dear readers.
Rule # 70: We are often
blind, even when we don’t realize it.
Here are some further examples of blind people we
have met:
·
A year before Hobblestone’s uncle moved to Topeka, he never would have
dreamed that he’d be moving to Topeka. In fact, he didn’t even know where
Topeka was.
·
When Virgil was dating Lucinda, he never expected that one day he’d be
dating Pam instead.
·
Virgil’s mother was totally confused now that Virgil wasn’t going to
marry Lucinda. Confused, frustrated, angry and bitter, in fact. She thought she
had had things All Figured Out. (We know about thinking that way,
don’t we?)
·
And how could we forget? Until the Disappointing
Letter from Graduate School arrived, Hobblestone thought he knew what he
would be studying and where he would be studying it. But suddenly, he was faced
with a blank slate. An empty page. A future unknown. A bridge surrounded by fog
so thick that he couldn’t even tell where the bridge was leading.
·
One night, Hobblestone and Harry were on their way to the movies. At
least they thought that’s where they were going. But along the way they
saw a car on the side of the road with its hazard lights blinking and, lo and
behold, it turned out to be their friend Virgil. His car had just stopped
running and he had to coast to the side of the road. They stopped to help him.
Harry, who knew a lot about cars, was able to fix the problem. (Don’t worry
about what the problem was. It Doesn’t
Matter.) But anyway, to cut a long story short, they never ended up
going to the movies that night. Instead, they ended up in the Rusty Bumblebee Café drinking overpriced
lattes and having a great time reminiscing about the housewarming party they’d
been to at Samantha’s new condo. (More
about Samantha’s housewarming party later.)
And so there you have it: they thought they knew where they were
heading, but they ended up where they never expected to be going. It turned out
to be a good evening. They had far more fun than they would have had at the
movies. (Don’t’ ask what movie they were going to see. It Doesn’t Matter.)
On a related note, I know a way that you can experience on a daily
basis the sensation of not knowing where you are going. A way that is
guaranteed to work. A way that can have an enormous impact on your life if you’re
ready to handle the Transformation.
Would you like to know what it is? I don’t care whether you do or not: I’m
still going to tell you about it. Then you can decide whether or not to cross
the bridge. I’ll tell you all about it next time.
Meanwhile, be assured that this blog will not be
dealing with: 1) chaos theory; 2)
the history of Amazing Grace; 3) bak choy recipes for diabetics.
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