The Constant

I suppose there are some people who are living out their plans for life without a hitch, but it seems like there are more people whose lives do not exactly go from point A to point B and then on to C.  What many of us experience is a life filled with side roads that demanded walking and impossible to see around curves which obscured the reality which was ahead.  Oh, we may walk the big plan of life, but within it are all sorts of things most of us never figured to be out there waiting for us. 

 

Abraham might have figured that once he said "yes" to going where God was going to take him that it would be an easy stroll into the future.  Maybe Peter and John and the rest of that crowd who walked with Jesus thought that walking with a miracle worker would surely soften the road beneath their feet.  But, most of us do not have to read the Biblical stories to know the reality of dreams going bust, dreams being shattered, and plans being erased as if some magic eraser started rubbing out our life.

 

The constant in all of this has always been holy presence.  No matter what has come our way, God has been on that road as well.  Not even in those moments when we chose the road of disobedience's consequences did we find ourselves forsaken.  It often seems that God sees the way ahead of us before we start walking it.  We find ourselves coming to such a conclusion because no matter where we have gone He has been alongside of us, or maybe just ahead, or just behind pushing onward.  And, if such is the reality from our past, then we have every reason to expect Him to be present with us wherever the road seems to be taking us in the present moment.  Knowing we are never going to be alone....no matter what...is indeed something for which we to be grateful.