I have thought about this often as, well. I feel the need to escape from “stuff”. You know, all those hindrances and burdens that [this] life throws at you. So, I start looking around outside and inside my head trying to find the solution. There is a separation anxiety there that is perplexing. On one hand the journey is intensely complex and then conversely simple. So, while reading a letter from Paul to the Ephesians, he connects with this. Selling the motorcycle is a bit extreme but maybe it is just the beginning. The word “maybe” here happens to flex a bit rhetorically in context. So, while on vacation (a time to focus precisely on these subjects) Dad mentions that he sold his motorcycle. He has talked about this for awhile now and now, it is gone.
Ephesians chapter two begins the journey. More on why I happen to be reading from Ephesians on this specific date from diving into the 5x5x5 Bible Reading Plan (https://goo.gl/Wk3B3M).
And then chapter three …
So, there is the simple end. To read it and take it all in is not a simple process because living can get a bit complex but, at this point, knowledge is not the bull eye but a relationship … not a cosmic connection into a alter reality of myself … of knowing Jesus. Meditation may mean simplifying so that God’s purpose and plan that he has can be reactionary. If, through this relationship of learning that he loves me so that I can LOVE HIM WITHOUT BOUNDARIES then extends my own. I am so thankful for grace on this point.
No separation anxiety, here (Romans 8:35-39):
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?”