“Heal the sick…cast out the demons…” Matthew: 10-8.

One of the heavy lessons of life for me was in realizing that some people want to change, most people don’t. It was a therapist who told me that once I began to change, almost all of the people in my life would leave me.

This has largely turned out to be true, and I don’t mean that in a judgmental way. People have the right to make their own choices about their lives, they don’t have to pursue mine, and I don’t have to follow theirs.

I read once that the first task of a minister is to make other people aware of their predicament and trouble. But I am not a minister, my first task in life is to make me aware of my predicament and to understand who I am.

The purpose of the hero journey is to know who we are, and to set out into the unknown to find out, and then to return, healed or broken (or both) and share what we have learned with others.

The idea for me was to heal the sickness in myself – I can’t save others – and cast out my demons.

I know that my own hero journey will never be complete, but it has been and is the most exciting and meaningful trip of my life.

I am healing all the time, and casting demons out left and right, they are piled up all over the barn and the woods.