Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Path



I recently listened to someone talk about a faith journey and that set me to thinking about my own journeys. When you start out it's impossible to visualize the terminus—or the ruts, or tributaries, or heights. Who envisions a journey that takes so many meandering turns and stops and starts with spurts.

I recall playing Chutes and Ladders—thinking I was winning and then finding myself sliding down a chute and plummeting down to my original position. Nothing to do but start in again if I expected to win.

Faith journey. We start out with particular tenets, principles, creeds, doctrines—all served up by adults. This is what to believe—a theology served up for consumption.

Then comes the time of testing.Do these fit me? Is there another way of looking at the world? So the search begins—

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