dailydatewithgod

Sometimes the path ahead is clear.  It looks like a straight line that will lead us from one point to another.  Yet the moment we step on the path we find the winding curves we did not see ahead of time.  It is as though the road adapts and changes as we set forth upon it.  It can be disconcerting if we chose to walk the path because we thought we knew where it led.  In my life those are the kinds of paths I thought I was taking.  It feels safer to think we know where things are going.  It makes it worth taking a risk and putting time and energy to getting to what we have determined will produce the end result we want.  Yet life does not operate in this way.  There is a flow and a movement that creates a winding path with corners and curves seeming to take us off track.  What if the winding part is the most important part?  Being in the space of not quite knowing where things are going allows us to let go into the flow and just be.  We are not human doings who are only designed to go from one point to another.  Our hearts and our spirits calls us to embrace the winding nature of life and let go and trust we have what we need to survive.  The winding parts are the encounters we did not foresee, the people who seem to be in our way, and the character building opportunities to see things from a different angle.  God encourages us to trust we have not been abandoned on the winding parts of the path but have a unique opportunity to find God within the truth of who we are when what we see with our eyes is not all of what is there for us to experience.