Currently Reading Dialogues with Silence : Prayers & Drawings By Thomas Merton see related

Another prayer of Merton:

"In one sense we are always traveling, and traveling as if we did not know where we were going.  In another sense we have already arrived.  We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are traveling and in darkness.  But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore, in that sense, we have arrived and are dwelloing in the light.  But oh!  How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!"

Who else can relate to this tension...always traveling to draw closer to God even when we don't know exactly where we're going...but in another sense knowing that through Christ we somehow already "arrived" by His grace?  Thoughts?