Imagine getting into a sailboat on a lovely day with the hope of seeing miles of beautiful coastline and sparkling ocean—but never unmooring your boat from the dock. You won’t see very much!

Figuratively speaking, though, many of us actually do this all the time. We try to set sail in our quest for spirituality, for a higher sense of who we are as the image and likeness of God, while still hanging on to a sense of ourselves—our story, our likes and dislikes, our opinions or view of things, our losses, fears, and physical status—as material. And because we remain moored to this false perspective, we don’t attain that higher view.

We need to open our arms and let the winds of God blow away the residue of a mortal sense of life.