The Crossroads Cafe

"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens". - Ecclesiastes 3:1

It is now dusk, the setting of another year is upon us and the way ahead is getting dark: Welcome to the Crossroads Cafe, O weary traveler! Our last stop before the void of the third Christian millennium.

The void ahead is the future yet undiscovered and unmapped.

We are children of the promise, walker of worlds, they call us, pilgrims to this strange, forbidden land, looking for our way back to God, our last end. Our way is hard and narrow, an uncertain passage through time and mortality; lonely if it were not for faith, hopeless if it were not for Christ, and futile if it were not for love.

It is twilight and the setting of another year is upon us. Let us pause at the coming of night and take certain comfort in the warmth of our native baptismal communion. Let our hearts draw near to each other as we rest for a moment in the silence, look back at the road behind us, reflect on our lessons learned and take counsel in God within ourselves how to prudently proceed at daybreak in the way of virtue, goodwill and peace.

- EJ San Miguel