Crossing over - into anything - is a hard decision to make. As you walk into a new life, a new sphere, a new unknown, you leave behind the wealth of the past together with all the familiarity and the control you have over it.

The question is, will you do it?

Even if you knew for a fact that crossing over would leave you in a state of utter nothingness, would you do it? If there was nothing to be got from crossing over, and all you could take along with you into the new unknown was a conscience and a conviction, would you do it?

To leave behind the beauty of recognition, fame, admiration - or maybe just acceptance - in search of a newly discovered something that may leave you with nothing except that something on which to cling - would you do it?

Walking into the dark with no sight of the future, embracing everything that is unknown and alien to you… does that not sound like the paschal mystery spoken of in your faith? So much for talking about it; now is the challenge to live it out.

But if you're afraid of trouble, don't do it!

Some people prefer to just linger by the wayside, waiting for you to give accounts of your adventures through the darkness. They enjoy listening to those stories - even being challenged by those stories - but would never walk a mile with you through those adventures. No siree... the stories alone are enough to keep their adrenalines pumping.

Really, you have got to be foolish enough to cross over. You have to choose to either be wise enough to withhold such a foolish decision, or to be foolish enough to follow the voice of the wise Spirit and cross over.

You’re invited all the same. It’s just a matter of whether you’re foolish enough to follow.

Coming?