Paths 8/7/07

Sometimes the way isn’t straight and narrow. Sometimes we veer off the trodden path not into desolation or anxiety or sin, but into different paths of arriving at the same goal like the 72 disciples who moved to heal those on various roads in life. Sometimes our path will lead us into a desert of fasting and temptations. Other times our path will lead us to a mountain side of prayer. Still other times our path will be on stormy waves of a tumultuous sea. Sometimes we climb a mountain where transformation shudders through us. Or we drag ourselves up a hill where the tortures of life nail us to the reality of our helplessness. But all divergent paths lead to a place where we can come aside and rest before hiking to the ends of the earth in the glorious proclamation that paths become path and destinations become destiny where we receive our mantra: “Well done!”