There is a place...

There is a place of peace and serenity, a place that is within and yet just beyond this world – a place that exists and yet is not seen. You and I have the ability if we desire to visit this place.

We visit it in thoughts and dreams, through music and reflection, waking sleeping, walking, lying down and looking at clouds.

It is always a choice – whether we stay only in the world that we see or make the effort to visit the world that is just beyond the veil.

For many this world is shut off. Like Alice unable to enter the garden, these poor souls alternately grow larger and smaller but are never able to enter that which they can only peer at through the keyhole of the locked door.

We however who by the grace of God have accepted the sacrifice of the lamb of God; we who follow the righteous one, God’s only begotten son. We, without any effort to grow larger or smaller, enter freely through the door of the sheepfold and go in and out and find pasture.

If the world knew the pleasure of His company, the joy of His fellowship and the absolute serenity of His presence, they would not seek to find the half-truths being hawked at the carnival sideshows of pseudo-spirituality that only lead the unwary off the path and into the three ring circus of confusion.

The path to holiness, the path to salvation is not the world’s path to enlightenment: far from it. Following after the lie of the god of this world, the prince of the power of the air – or lord of the wind if you will - these impoverished and hungry souls take the bait and are ensnared by the good forsaking the true. A mess of pottage, a game and they are gone absorbed into what they think is the universality of oneness only to realize too late that they have sold their soul for a glimpse behind the curtain when they could have kept their life and walked in triumphantly with the Lord Jesus Christ to reign with Him forever. Even so come quickly Lord Jesus.

@ 2009 Joseph Ricciardi Jr