A Resting Place

I remember the time when I used to travel overland with my family in North Africa and in Europe. Then we would travel from Marrakech to Tangier and crossing the strait of Gibraltar on a ferry. Spend a couple of weeks with friends, in Spain or in Portugal, and then heading back. During summer vacations a lot of North Africans travel from Europe to North Africa. The Moroccan government would offer resting places along their national roads so to give the tired travellers some extra strength to complete their journey.

Many North Africans live in two worlds. In Europe they get married and have their families, and in North Africa, to where they go back to with their spouses and children to spend time with their ancestors, enjoying the love and drinking from the local culture. There is a massive flow of people at Algeciras, port of South Spain, from where they take a ferry to Tangier, the Moroccan port by the Mediterranean Sea. The families would take lots of gifts to distribute to their relatives in Africa. The crossing would take less than three hours. When they leave the ferry, they must endure the last leg of the journey, overland, until their final destination.

There are a number of pilgrims on planet Earth. Each one walking between two worlds. The physical one and the spiritual one. They can get tired while following the Lord on the narrow path where the local culture is not theirs. This journey can be quite challenging sometimes. But it is worth it. Many only perceive the material life, blind to the other universe where real freedom is a reality. They do not have eyes to recognise the spiritual reign. The seers, on the other hand, can sometime face adversities while living on a limited sphere, where its values are not equal to the higher ones from above. There is always a battle between the two realms. For the ones that would not give in, there is the supernatural peace and life within, offered to the true followers of the light. Here on Earth, one find the opportunity to grow and mature, and then one day, to enter into eternity solely by the grace of God.

Along the road in our short pilgrimage on planet Earth, it is always good to know about a resting place available to every follower of the truth. God, in his love, is always ready to give rest to all his children. Each pilgrim’s heart becomes an oasis, by the presence of God himself. Our hearts becoming a holly and beautiful place, where God dwells and where we also dwell in God, only the two, alone, in perfect peace, enjoying the beatitude that is only possible in God’s presence.