Re-Aligning Pathways

You have the fountain of life that quenches our thirst.
    Your light has opened our eyes and awakened our souls.

Psalm 36:9 ~ 
The Voice Version

Our brain is made up of pathways – thoughts that are physically connected to one another. Not just random opinions, but how we arrive at them, our emotional reactions to people and places, smells and sounds….every “way” we come to conclusions are set in these pathways of thought. That’s not exactly a scientific description, but you get where I’m going, right? Our thoughts get settled in a routine, a repetition that is not always God directed, but human directed…and because they are all nicely wrapped up in our skull, we most often times do not realize it!

We can change these pathways, need to change some (a lot of them?), it is the ‘how’ of this change that stumps us. It can seem overwhelming...perhaps cluttered, with no discernible place to start, but there are all kinds of ways to seek and find the right changes in our thoughts. 

One of the aspects of the labyrinth is to serve as that tool in our prayer life. There is a focus of prayer, a change in step from busy-ness  to quiet-ness ~ a change in path. Our thoughts can be worked on in the same way and with intention, with purposefulness, we can step in closer to the full Light of His Life in order to open our eyes and souls to His vision for our steps.

In the coming year, this is my goal…to change, to re-direct my pathways, to align with God’s pathway more and more. As an example, when I have the thought, “I can’t do this.”, just move the period over a bit and add “without You, Jesus.”

One of Scripture’s designs is to help us in our thought punctuation ~ to move those periods over and open up to Jesus’ desire in the moment. The answer to “I can’t” is found in Philippians 4:13

I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.

When you think about it, no pun intended, Scripture is all about aligning our thoughts, our lives with Him. 

We are to always be a work in progress….He’s not through with us, yet! So, the very ‘thought’ that somehow my thoughts are always set right, or finished just can’t be. We are so easily misled, re-directed, distracted into believing that ‘we got this’, but Jesus’ message to us is that He’s got this…

He’s got us forever and always.

( Jesus )This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who He is and what He does and then aligns with Him will enter real life, eternal life.

John 6:39 ~ The Message