Destiny or floating....

"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating

around accidental-like on a breeze, but I,

 I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time."

from the movie Forrest Gump

I've been thinking today and watching people.  People moving all around, running into each other, trying to avoid each other, pretending we don't see each other,

all moving around on this tiny speck of a planet we call earth, living out what we call

Life.  I wonder, is this the providential master plan

or

do we float around with the wind underneath our spread out feathers,

gliding along on a breeze in some happen-stance kind of way where hope rises up to meet our fears to allow us to  meet each new encounter as it comes to us.

I'm like Forrest

I don't know.

I used to believe in the Master Plan,

all drawn out in some Record book.

I'm not sure I beileve that now---believe that we are just mere checker pieces that some bearded guy in the sky moves in a random amusement like fashion.

I'm not sure it is all accidental-like

but perhaps a bit of both all rolled up

in a big bundle known as life that moves along, rolls along, occuring all around us...

Why such deep thoughts?

Perhaps, it was part of that Master Plan

or

just mere happenstance that I was standing where I was standing today...

whatever it was

it invited me to think about what all this meant...

I'm still not quite sure

don't have it figured out,

but perhaps

if I tell you the tale of my day,

you'll have some thoughts to share

about

whether our road map is all planned out or

if each new encounter rises to greet us

or do

we

we have the choice to say Hello-new occasion, nice to see you!

or hide our eyes and move on by....

so here is what happened.

this my tale of the today....

I stopped by the pharmacy to pick up some medications on the way home.

There was a line and so I stood there,

watching and listening to life all around me.

When from behind me,

I heard,

"I like your head cover" said a man with a deep voice.

"Why thanks--I don't have hair, I've been getting chemo for cancer."

"Well I'll pray for you," said the man.

"I found out a couple of months ago and found out yesterday,

I am in remissions, Praise God.  God is Good!

"all the time." said the man.

"Let me have a high five for Jesus!" said the woman and

I heard the sound of their hands slap.

I began to think

and

wonder as I listened to their continuing conversation,

"When are people gonna realize that everything is part of the Divine plan....blah blah..."

and I left their conversation.....

and

.....

I began to think...

think about what they were saying...

"I used to believe this...used to embody this....but is it true???

Is that how God works?

some are healed and others left to die,

planned remission or put out of commission.

I listened some more as the gentleman insisted that the woman go in front of him---I was of course dying to turn around and stare at them, to see her hat, to see what these strangers who met in the line were all about.....

They continued their God talk and

I went off into my own world,

thinking about the Mystery that I believe undergirds us......

Destiny

happenstance

accidental collisions...

and

the world turns

and

life goes on

night comes and the sun rises

and

we people

wonder around like little ants

scurrying

hunting,

running into each other,

over the top of each other

sometimes

right through each other...

I don't know...

don't know how it works...

and

you know what

I don't need to know...

my role is this...

to learn what I can

as I journey along,

to listen,

love,

play,

move,

see,

be

and

to connect along the way.

planned or unplanned

controlled or random

Life moves forward

and

sometimes

strangers meet in a line at the pharmacy

and

cause

a radical rambler to

go on a

word vomit....

and

for that

she is most thankful

on this Tuesday night.

Have a great day

and

pay attention to

all the sights,

all the people,

all the things we can learn

every day

along the way.!!!

for life is Good....

All the time!!!