“The Way Around”
We are not always understood. Jesus found this out, just like so many of us. Close family, friends, and neighbors may cling to an idea of who we are and cannot imagine we have grown beyond that identity. And likewise, we may do the same to them. We are called to move ahead and do what we feel called to, claiming who we know we are, taking the way around what others think we ought to do and be. And we offer the same steadfast love and encouragement to others.
“I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you. Many are the torments of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.”
Excerpts from Psalm 32:1-11
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you. He said to them, Go and tell that fox for me, ‘Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is impossible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem’. Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather you children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, yet you were not willing.
Luke 13:31-34
Questions to ponder this week:
What’s a pathway (physical, moral, political, etc.) that you’d never want to walk?
When have you taken a wrong direction?
How or when have you experienced the spirit leading you?