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.