“We will go up to the house of the Lord.” At all times or perhaps most of the time, we are outwardly focused. We tend to live life outside of ourselves, interiorly thinking but casting outwardly to the wind every thought, feeling, ambition, emotion, opinion, or desire to anyone who will listen. Even though we mask our disorders and hide our secrets, we still project our hopes, dreams, and sensuality to and towards a virtual outer world filled with virtual pleasure and not so real AI personalities. Our dreams are enormous as wide as the ocean and deeper than the bluest sea. We reach for the stars, we contemplate endless opportunities, our aspirations higher than the tallest mountain range. We contemplate endless voyages, meditate on what it would be like if I lived over there, met someone else, had another assignment, worked a different job, had a different family, looked like her or have what he has. Always living outwardly, ignoring what is on the inside. We live life on the outside wishing we could be somewhere else or be someone other than ourselves. We tend to look out there, over there, everywhere, and anywhere but on the interior inside where life counts and begins. Our interior life is most precious to us and to God Himself. Life is breathed into our hearts, into our lungs, into our lives, into the very core and essence of our being. What happens on the inside, is taking place right now, is most important and affects our whole life. The interior life should attract us, but the outside world causes us not to want to listen or pay attention but rather distracts and pulls us away. We tend to live in the future or live in the past. Always on the go, always on the move. Thinking about this thing or that thing or this person or that person or this situation or that situation, never even leaving the room or getting up from the bed or the chair. Living life on the outside yet never living life on the inside. Deep in our interior life is where God lives, where He dwells. Our interior life is God’s home, His happy abode. God is interior living, the interior life. He is heart, spirit, breath, soul, being, prayer and presence all lived on the inside where life takes place. Go up to God’s house in the interior sacred space where He dwells, sings, shares, lives, and prays with you, in the secret silence of your interior life and heart.
