Ahead of The Road

"My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has its inner light, even from a distance- and changes us, even if we do not reach it into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on, answering our own wave. . . but what we feel is the wind in our faces."  Rilke

We see the road ahead and our eyes already touch the sunny hill or for fly fishers, the sunlit river with rising fish.  But until we get there we might  have to endure a hard road. Good fishing lies ahead but for now, we feel the snow and cold winds against our faces.

However, we are already there. We already touch the sunny hill or the glistening river teeming with fish. Having a vision for our lives and where we want to go, transforms us. "It has its inner light, even from a distance- and changes us."

Sometimes our goals and our dreams feel this way. We already know even from a distance. We already arrived, "even if we do not reach it."

We hardly sense something. Something grabs us, a gesture waves us on, and we persist down the road, going far ahead of the road, we have begun, looking for trout...

And the elusive One that waves us on. . .