Are you a Maze Runner or Labyrinth Jogger?

 July 5, 2017

Some people love crossword puzzles. They spend hours playing with words, seeking out the right one. It’s a good exercise and helps keep us mentally alert, but personally I prefer the visual aspect of a maze to words. At times I have approached life like a maze. I think there has to be a “right” way of doing this. I agonize over making the right choices lest I end up at a dead-end and spend my life backtracking or completely lost.

But I’ve come to realize life is more like a labyrinth than a maze to those who love God. In a labyrinth there are no wrong turns or dead ends. There is only one way you can go which ultimately leads to the center. As long as you keep going forward you can’t help but reach your destination–the center. There are sharp turns along the way, the path can be frustrating and confusing, sometimes you seem so close, only to end up once again on the part of the path farthest from the center and then when you feel you are far away from your goal and despair of reaching it, you take a turn and there you are.

Life is like that. There have been times when I have felt lost and confused, the walls of the labyrinth rose up high around me leaving me in darkness. The light of the center was far away. I couldn’t see it. Yet I take comfort in knowing that sometimes it truly is darkest before the dawn. I take comfort in knowing if I just continue on, living each day the best I can, offering each day with its struggles, joys and pain to God, I cannot fail to reach the center wherein I encounter my God.

We know that God makes all things work together for the good for those who love him. Romans 8:38

 

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