It rained bamboo last night! OK, so
maybe I am exaggerating, but it sure did seem like it to me. Several places
along the path looked like this…
The rocks were covered and it looked
like there was a fork in the road. So, I got a bag and did a little (lot) of
leaf bagging. I had to laugh, because I really had not noticed all that on the
way into the Center of the labyrinth, just on the way out. Funny how that
happens, sometimes we can walk along just fine and not seem to need directions, and then...?
In life, you think ~ no, you know ~ you’ve
had a word from God, you’re seeking His path and then it looks like you’re at a
fork in the road. As I cleaned things us, I just looked at the “fork” a little
differently today. God does allow the appearance of a fork, but is there really
one? I mean, HE has a path for our lives…a perfect, glory-to-God-giving path…just
because we don’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. That “fork” in our life may be a
pause, a place God knows that we need to stop and brush a few things off in
order to see His next steps for us.
Perhaps a good first thing to do when we
get to a “fork”, is to stop and thank God for it…after all, He put it there, so
there must be something of His goodness we’re to stop and take in. AND THEN, allow Him to brush what needs to get brushed, so the path is made clear.
My Grandmother said that when you
sat a table and there was a fork above your plate that was a really good thing.
It meant there was dessert in your future, so save room!
“Don’t let this throw you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust Me.
There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. If that weren’t so, would
I have told you that I’m on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I’m on
my way to get your room ready, I’ll come back and get you so you can live where
I live. And you already know the road I’m taking.”
John 14:1-4 ~ The Message Version
We all have personalized “forks” in
our lives…ways that God is reminding us that Jesus has gone to prepare a place
for us, a banquet for us all!
Praying to learn to celebrate the forks! 
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as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow
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Romans 15:13