I love the song, "Life is A Highway" by Bon Jovi :) ..
Life is a series of journeys, and sometimes you journey to journey to another place to start, you guessed it a journey. Kind of the Abraham story, sometimes we think we know what we heard God say, but we don't listen to the very details and get the full meaning and change His plan and it causes us to have to walk a little farther for us to realize what God intended for us to do. Well, I have been going through the journey to journey with some "interruptions" and now I can see some of the plan unfold as I draw out the map of where I have been and I still can't see where I am going in God's plan but it is getting narrowed down, by crossing out all the places I am not going again, since they took me off the "straightened path" God had told me to walk on.
Freewill, Fear, Anxiety, (Stupidity), Flesh (S_E_L_F) and a few other things have complicated the journey and made some really special times not seem so special while I was on the path, but now looking back they shine like jewels. It is hard to remember while we are walking people may not know why we are walking around in circles or jumping on and off the path, or just standing there looking up into the sky.. But, we know why!! God told us to, and He is with us, sometimes we dance, sometimes He carries us, sometimes He has to stop us in our tracks and correct us or purify us. Our walk is different from some, but should all line up with scripture, but to see that it is lining up people need to know where we started out and that we are in contact with God.
The journey has been long and there have been many side trips to the dessert, I have had many Psalms 23 breaks. I have a few mountain top discussions and a burning bush or two to satisfy my need for confirmation. I have had things prunned from my life, and things added into it and woven by God's hand. I have lost many footprints on my beach and God sent new ones to fill the void. He has helped me keep the memories alive by sharing the jewel that person shared with me to help or encourage others.
I do not know where the path will lead from day to day, or why it goes like it does, I pray, I hear I follow. He bring thing into my life, my mind, my heart that I do not always appreciate, like, want or understand, but I know that they are from Him and I try to do what I feel Him telling me to do. (IF only He would give complete instructions WITH the expected results and the proper actions to me and the other person things would be so much smoother, and we could get on with the Praising and Worshiping of the Plan being fullfilled)
I cannot see the path and many times it is step here, now get in the truck and drive here, go here, read this, call this person, rest and pray about this, --Cook dinner, do laundry, go to bed. Get up the next morning and all the dots form a line, when I get out the "map" and plot where I walked today, sometimes it shows where I will go tomorrow sometimes it doesn't (or I won't know until I plug it into my GPS, ha ha).
I talk alot and sometimes it makes no sense to anyone but me, but eventually it all is revealed. Some day I can draw out the map of my life and it will be an awesome picture to go along with the soundtrack of all the songs that tell the story. All steps were taken in faith, because I surely cannot see why, how or when all this is going to make sense, be of any use to anyone or see what the plan was, but as sure as I am typing this, I KNOW HE IS GOD, HE SAVED MY SOUL FOR A REASON AND I WILL WAIT TOO SEE WHAT IT IS. I want to know now, but he keeps telling me, "You cannot understand it now, just love and believe and I will continue the work I started". I have to remember, I was not there when he lit the sun and moon and speckled the sky with the stars, He Did it alone, He alone is capable of more than I can imagine and He will make his plan work out and reveal it in His timing. So I cling to my life verse: (kind of marching orders: (emphasis mine)
Jeremiah 29:11-14 9NAS " For I know the plans I have for you." declares the LORD, "Plans for welfare and not calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found by You, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes ...... (Remember He spoke the stars into the sky, and they have not fallen yet!) :)
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