Just As I Am

the question

where are you going right now
or
where are you going after work
or
where are you going with that conversation
or
where are you going on vacation
or
where are you going to school
or
where are you going for dinner
or
where are you going tomorrow
or
where are you going with your life
or
where are you going after death
?

Any or all of the above...tell me...where you are going?
How do you know?

Simon Peter asked, "Master, just where are you going"

Jesus answered, "You can't now follow me where I'm going. You will follow later."

~John 13:36~

leaving winter behind

"Once in a wood at winter's end,
The withered sun, becoming young,
Turned the white silence into sound:
Bird after bird rose up in song.
The skeletons of snow-blocked trees
Linked thinning shadows here and there,
And those made mummy by the freeze
Spangled their mirrors on cold air.
Whether they moved — perhaps they spun,
Caught in a new but known delight —
Was hard to tell, since shade and sun
Mingled to hear the birds recite.
No body of this sound I saw,
So glassed and shining was the world
That swung on a sun-and-ice seesaw
And fought to have its leaves unfurled.
Hanging its harvest in between
Two worlds, one lost, one yet to come,
The wood's remoteness, like a drum,
Beat the oncoming season in.
Then every snow bird on white wings
Became its tropic counterpart,
And, in a renaissance of rings,
I saw the heart of summer start."

~Howard Moss~