In the High Court of Australia, among the tribal Aborigines, there is a tradition...a right of passage...an adventure...Upon his becoming of age, usually twelve or thirteen, an aborigine boy will leave home and family, and travel out into the wilderness for a year. At the start, he will travel with one of the elders from his tribe. This elder has the responsibility of teaching the young boy the traditions and "songlines", or ancestral lines of the tribe, and his duty as a protector of his people. Once his teaching is complete, he sets out on his own to pursue a journey that will take him far across the land, and deep into the depths of his own heart, as he searches out what it means to be a man...
This is Walkabout.
As I think on this tradition of the Aborigine people, I am called into the adventure that will awaken my own heart, and the journey that I am on to find within me the man that God created. I cannot help but think of my Savior, the God of the universe, who sent his own son on Walkabout here on earth, so the people of this world would know the author and creator of all songlines, and so that one day, we could join him in the courts of heaven for all eternity.
"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." Mark 10:45
"But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren..." Hebrews 2:9-11
Walkabout will be the place were I record the journey that God is taking me on. As I walk with him, I pray also that you also will take a journey of your own, a journey with the creator who loves you more than anything, who sent his son Jesus Christ to us.
On Walkabout,
Jonathan Shea
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