Journeying Home

To my mind came the answer, 'If God wills to show you more, he will be your light. You need none but him.' It was he whom I saw and yet sought.
For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us...
So I saw him and sought him; I had him and wanted him.
- Julian of Norwich

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

We are God's children now;
it does not yet appear what we shall be
- 1John3:2

Let us suppose that we are doing a mountain walk to the village which is our home. At midday we come to the top of a cliff where we are, in space, very near it because it is just below us. We could drop a stone into it. But as we are no cragsmen we can't get down. We must go a long way round; five miles maybe. At many points during that detour we shall, statically, be far further from the village than we were when we sat above the cliff. But only statically. In terms of progress we shall be far "nearer" our baths and teas.
- C. S. Lewis, Four Loves

Quotes can be found in "Journeing Godward", Ch. 7 of Julian of Norwich, Reflections on Selected Texts, by Austin Cooper, 1986