Since we have moved to Edmond, I think it goes without saying, that we
have made quite a few trips back to Ponca City. We have gone back to
visit the church, visit family and friends, and even take the boys to
the doctor but, for whatever reason, we have been driving back and forth
a lot. After being in Edmond for a few weeks, we decided to make yet another trip
back to Ponca. It was just me and the boys visiting that day and I was
anxious to get there. During the drive, the boys were watching their
movies in the backseat and I was enjoying some quiet time with the radio
and my thoughts. I was getting kind of lost in the drive...you know,
when you are almost just in auto pilot mode because you have driven THAT
drive soooo many times before and you feel like you could almost do it with
your eyes closed!? (don't worry...my eyes were open! ha!) Anyway, at one
point I really got to looking at my surroundings and I kind of freaked
out because I didn't recognize where I was. For some reason, the
landscape and the road didn't look familiar to me at all. I knew I was
still on I-35 North headed to Ponca City...I knew I hadn't taken an exit
or made a wrong turn, but I had to force myself to keep looking until I
saw something familiar just to comfort myself and to know that I
actually WAS on the right road.
Lesson Learned? Sometimes in life and in our relationship with the Lord we can be on a path and doing something that we KNOW is right and at the same time we can look up and feel lost. In that moment, we might panic and feel chaos build inside of us and we may even feel the need to "pull over" and re-evaluate where we are and where we are headed. We might want to turn around and head back the other direction knowing that something familiar is behind us but what we should do is take confidence in knowing that we were set on this path and should continue on, even if it may be blindly, until we reach our destination. Yes, there will be road signs telling us we are going the right way that will give us that boost we need to keep on...but in between those "signs" we just have to trust the road and trust the path. It will get us where we need to go.
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