The Dawn

If you ever get the chance, sit at a window or on a porch or yard in the predawn dark.  Watch and see how slowly the darkness gives way to the dawn light.  It takes a while.  I can see this at the monastery.  So consider the lesson we can learn from this in the spiritual journey.  The growth will be slow.  It takes a practice with patience.  The spiritual light will come if you give it time.  The same goes for growing up into a sober maturity.  It takes time.  We just have to plug away.  Growth, like the dawn, comes if we keep working at it.  Don't give up.  Getting into running shape is the same process though at this time I am in the running darkness, jogging along on hope!