So today brings a new day and a new look and a new approach to the blog. These certainly will be the musings of a weary traveler. So, why call it “Musings of a Weary Traveler”? Not because I travel to strange and interesting places but I have done that some. Not because I am always tired but I am indeed weary as life so often leaves us. No, I am on a journey from the day of my birth until the end of it all here on earth. I am living the hyphen right now, that place in between those two dates and thus on my journey. I measure life not in goals but in experiences. I measure it not by the gallon full but by the cupful. It’s like the Psalmist said in 23:5c, “my cup runneth over with joy.” It runneth over not because of what I’ve acquired but by what I have retained. My cup runneth over not because of what I have accomplished but by what I’ve experienced. Do I want for anything? Sure, but I have learned to leave as much as I can and pack as light as possible. I’ve learned to treasure people and not things. I’ve learned to steward that and those which I have been given to do so.
So, herein, I begin again to reinvent myself and to begin a new chapter in this book called Life I invite you to come along with me and take this journey with me. I can’t guarantee the most exciting of times but at least we will have journeyed together. Tolkien said it best, “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” Such is life, the quest to find the thing only to find out you were looking for was not the thing. So, what am I looking for? The same thing you’re looking for: peace, fellowship, good food, a decent cup of coffeee among other things. Let’s hope we never find the Platonic form of it, so that we may keep on looking. Life, what a quandary?
