SOMETHING TO UNLOCK US
I have hear numerous comments like these: "I want my life to matter."
"I want to make more of a difference to people." "Life is too short.
I may not live a long life, but I do want to look back on a
meaningful one." We live in a time when people are seeking more
authentic ways to live.
We also live in a time when there is less interest in religion
and more in spirituality. Less in denominations and more in
global participation. There seems to be a public yearning for
lasting answers to the gnawing emptiness so many feel within.
Television, movies and print media are tying into our universal
attraction to all things spiritual. And so is the Internet. Just
google the word "God." In English you will get several hundred
million hits! More people are writing and talking about God than the
world's wealthiest, most powerful and most well-known historical
personalities. There is a great interest in spirituality, and for
many people, a renewed quest for meaning.
In the wonderful Lewis Carroll story of "Alice In Wonderland,"
one of the characters is a lock. The lock is restless. It is
busily hunting for something behind every rock and tree. As Alice
watches the lock, her curiosity is aroused and she asks, "What is
the matter?"
The lock replies, "I am looking for something to unlock me."
I think that is our quest -- looking for something to unlock us.
Something to open us up to passion and purpose for living. We
don't want to die before we ever truly LIVE! And we somehow know
that our best answers will be spiritual ones; for we're finally
unlocked when our hearts have been opened. It's a key...to peace.
