When I’m on Sabbatical, I spend most of my time connecting to the sacred.  I’m on
sabbatical now and I walked one of my favorite labyrinths on Tuesday morning in
an uncharacteristic for Eastern Washington rain.  In the dark predawn, alongside the
majestic and generousColumbia River.

It was heaven.

Check the World Wide Labyrinth Locator  to see what’s near you, or what’s near where you’re travelling.

I’m always surprised what I learn on these labyrinth walks.

This time I relearned that I’m clueless about where I am in life.

When you walk the labyrinth, you’re always heading to the center.  Sometimes you’re very close, then suddenly you’re on the outer rim again. And then when you least expect it (for me that’s right after I give up) you arrive at your destination.

When you leave, it’s similar, but now you may be more content to just walk the path.  And that’s the final message, this time, for me.

Just walk the path.   

One step at a time. 

 Do that which is in front of you THIS moment, and let the rest take care of itself.

I turn 65 in a few months, and in the USAthat is the usual age for retirement.  I intend to work for another 15 years at least, but as I just said, I am clueless about where I am in the labyrinth – close to the center?  almost to the end?  Out on the rim?

Luckily, it doesn’t matter.  All I have to do is put one foot in front of the other and walk on the lovely green grass.  Even when the grass is wet and soaks my sneakers.   Everything else is really none of my business.

Looking backwards through my life, it has always been thus.  Clueless.  OK. And on the path.

Find your labyrinth and walk in beauty,

William