Around the Curve

We cannot see beyond the curve in the road.  What lies out of sight is unknown to us.  We cannot know if there is danger ahead, something like a rock slide which will surely push us over the edge, or more of the flower lined road which is in the rear view mirror.   Life does  not give us peeks around the curves, around the bends, the twisting roads that run before us.  And, most assuredly, those unseen places filled with whatever, are out there for us to reach and pass through.    

Since we cannot see beyond the curve in the road, it is a good thing to know the One who sees not only where we are and where we have been, but where we are going as well.  What we sometimes discover as the journey unfolds is that where we are going is nothing like where we thought we were going.  In those moments it is good to know our Father God has not only seen what is ahead, but has also been preparing us along the way for the unseen and unexpected.  It is not a road map that we carry with us to make this journey, but something all together different.  What God gives to us to take along the way is something called faith.      

Faith enables us to go around the curve.  Without it many of us would stop and cautiously peer around the edge, or maybe there would be such fear, we would simply stop and turn around and go the way we have come.  But, alas, turning around is mostly not the option.  Life is about going ahead.  It can only be lived in one direction.  And, so we must go because going forward speaks of the way He created us.  Around the curve we go.  Maybe we do not go with boldness or without fear, but we go.  We go simply because it is the way forward and more importantly because God can be trusted to get us beyond and through whatever unexpected danger lurks ahead in our journey.  His plan is to bring us Home and somewhere along the way, we can count on reaching that place where He has called us to be and dwell forever.