The literary scholar Joseph Campbell, author of the book The Hero With a Thousand Faces, notes that many great myths involve a subtle twist after the triumph in battle. He calls it ‘The Crossing of the Return Threshold.’ ‘The returning hero, to complete his adventure, must survive the impact of the world,’ Campbell writes. ‘The first problem of the returning hero is to accept as real, after an experience of the soul-satisfying vision of fulfillment, the passing joys and sorrows, banalities and noisy obscenities of life.’ In other words, the end of the true hero’s journey is coming home and finding a battle to be waged not with an external enemy, but with one’s own demons. Win that final battle- the hardest one of all- and true victory is yours,’

~writes Arthur C. Brooks

forgiveness is always part of our story…

inquiry for today~ what measure of living feels free today?

making our way…

Every time you choose hope over fear,

love over anger,

effort over doubt,

you’re rewriting your story

into something stronger,

softer, and more you.

~A.W.