We are all in relationship with the Infinite. But when we enter into relationship with the Infinite consciously, we are then not as in charge of our own lives anymore. The three days that Jonah spends in the belly of the whale represents the darkness and the mystery that our own lives plunge into sometimes. This tension between spirit and self exists, and it can grow so great as to cause us to abandon the spiritual path.
But we can live in the tension, in the paradox. We can allow the tension to occupy the central place in our lives. As such, the choices we thought we had to make become part of a larger truth---larger than we ever imagined.
