I am thinking of finding our way again.

Fate declares everything is predetermined, is meant to be, but really:

‘The future is dynamic, active, interactive.’*

The protagonist moves towards a larger understanding of how every person is creative and can be an artist or artisan of something – an almost infinite number of possibilities is mind-blowing and inspiring at the same time.

Looking back into the myths and legends of history, Richard Rohr notices how, ‘The hero or heroine is by definition a “generative” person.’**  There is in every person an “engine room” capable of producing a ‘surplus or an abundance of life.’**

When our protagonist realigns, she falls through life as it is into something deeper, into what Rohr deliciously calls deep time – where past, present, and future exist at once: ‘all of us can live in the present as if we’re back from the future.’*

This falling through, or realigning, begins when she opens her mind to more than WYSIATI (What You See Is All There Is); opens her heart to feel all of what the lives of others, the world, and her future life are opening to her; and, then, to face the crucial realignment, posed in the question What will you do with this new life?

She helps us to see the ancient, present, and future experiences of the hero: the protagonist does not know what will happen until she enters the journey, then she allows the journey to speak to her, and, then lets go to be able to take hold of what is emerging.

The entry points to the journey may be some change in circumstance, or a growing discontent, or an anger at some injustice, or a crisis,^ or an irritating itch of curiosity, or even a word at a particular moment which resonates.

Whatever the call, the protagonist seizes the moment.

(*From Erwin McManus’s Uprising.)
(**From Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward.)
(^Maybe we ought to see midlife crisis as a positive call?)