Saturday, June 19, 2010

Unto Each, His Proposed Last. � Chalkdust101

Unto Each, His Proposed Last. � Chalkdust101

Unto Each, His Proposed Last.

We long for moments of exquisite clarity, where vertical forests separate and reveal their lost horizontal path and fog lifts long enough for you to arrive safely to where you are headed. It is in these moments that we find our true selves, the person we have dreamt of becoming–the leader, the visionary, the one who others look to when they don’t know the way. All of our systems are in flow, our shots are falling, our decisions ring with confidence, we know which way we are going.
This is how we would like to feel when we decide to change our lives. The odd part is, life doesn’t care how you want to feel. When external factors force your hand, the decision-making process rarely looks like the description above. Rather, it looks bedraggled, chaotic, forlorn.
And the looks of the process pale in comparison to how it affects the human heart.
I’ve spent the last 6 years of my professional life in a town called Sparta. My kids haven’t known me with any