It is Finished. Now What?

Paul wrote, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead..."

My granddaughter is just now taking her first steps. She started out rolling to get where she wanted to go. Then she learned to crawl. Now she is beginning to walk. Soon she will be running to get what she wants. That is how we learn. We gradually move on from what we know into the unknown. Once we know that we move on again.

This book is a description of my spiritual journey from being a young Catholic boy from Chicago through the teachings in the books of Carlos Castaneda as he described his apprenticeship to a sorcerer, seer and man of knowledge named Don Juan Matus. From there I attended a church which was better described as a school of Christian Mysticism and the study of the Kabbalah. In each case the requirements were Impeccability or perfection. Not only that but perfection even as god is perfect.

But what I have come to understand is a case similar to that of the children of Israel. As Paul said, "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." God's righteousness was imputed to all mankind at the Cross. That is the Gospel, the good news, of Grace and Peace.

I have found that, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, Going home is just a matter of waking up. We were there all along.