Aha Journey

It wasn't an "aha moment" for the Magi;

maybe even a stretch to call it aha at all.

 They had been studying and

preparing their whole lives.

After all, gold, frankincense, and myrrh

are not exactly ATM withdrawals

for a last minute road trip.

Herod and his cadre of scholars

had a chance to experience it

as an aha but their reaction

indicates it was more of an "Oh no!".

At how many points along the journey

did one or more of them want to quit?

How close did the gifts come

to succumbing to Pawn Stars,

financing this trip without defined end?

Would that we might commit

our whole selves to a journey

toward a divine revelation

of such eureka proportions!

Let us, this Day of Epiphany,

begin again, whether

for the first time or ninetieth,

our own collective aha journey,

and may it not so much

feel like aha as "Yes, yes!"

Photo by Todd Jenkins

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