How often do you shirk the responsibility of following the divine for satisfying your temporary desires? It comes so easily to us to walk away. We give up eternity with God for something so trivial that when the scales finally fall from our eyes we absolve ourselves by distancing the us with retrospective clarity from the us that fell so far from the path.
We were not temporarily possessed or led away by some other being. More often than not we were simply led astray by our own greed. We look outside and think there is so much the world has to offer so why are we stuck here in a place where we are required to be still, patient, loving, forgiving, kind? Things that we often struggle with doing from our hearts. Why can’t we have the ease others seem to have? Why can’t we have the carefree happiness others seem to have? And then we step into that world and realise how flimsy, temporary it all is. Yet we keep going back.
How quickly forget! How often we revisit these mistakes! May we find the tenacity to stay the path. May we not get distracted by purported ease in dissatisfactory places. May we chase after the eternal with all our hearts.