The logical reason, of course, is that it was dark and that I mis-stepped somewhere along the way, maybe multiple times, but it really shoots the metaphor down. How is the Labyrinth at all like real life, if you have to keep plodding along the path to get to the goal? Should I take this personally?
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Dearest,
The experience and your current wrestling with Wooster seem to coincide. Remember that metaphors are only metaphors _ meaning that they some important things in common, but are not the thing itself! Take it personally? Meaning a message from God? I think it seems to me more like a possible metaphor for what you are feeling with the ending of the Wooster time. I am certain that you are NOT back at the beginning nor are you rejected - by God, life, or even the Wooster commuity.
I do think that perhaps the path that you thought you could travel has been closed - and that remaining on that path is not a spiritually fruitful exercise at this time. It may have been a sort of confirmation - because I do believe that God accompanies us in the darkest nights of our souls. When we can least raise our own heads or see God's light - is when God is most present and most in pain with us.
You are in my prayers and thoughts. If a further conversation would be at all helpful, please let me know.
