As I’m flying over The US from Chicago to Tucson to help a friend in need I’m looking at the landscape below. I’m noticing and appreciating all of the beautiful colors and shapes of the land below as well as of the clouds and shadows they cast. I noticed how in certain areas the roads between and dividing the farmland make absolute perfect squares…like God drew them Himself. I know these are man made but I think of the magnitude of planning and calculating it took to coordinate them. I am up at about 34,000 feet and some of these roads continue absolutely straight for what seems like hundreds of miles. I was focusing on the repetitive pattern of squares and lines when I noticed a large hill or small mountain right smack in the middle of this linear perfection. Well the main road leading up to the mountain was straight as an arrow until it couldn’t go any further. It’s almost like the road was caught off guard and tried to find a new route but was so shaken and disturbed that the symmetric beauty was completely destroyed. After a little struggle it became very squiggly and diverted about 45 degrees off into a completely different direction. It reminded me of an etch a sketch when you made a perfectly straight line but then tried without success to make a diagonal one. It also looked as if the road tried to make it’s way back to it’s original path a few times but without success. I followed it’s curvy incoherent path a bit further until finally the road regained it’s way and began to straighten out on a new path…completely down the ways a bit from its original location but ultimately headed in the same direction. It seemed to continue on indefinitely but I was unable to see it’s future.
This road and it’s journey seem to mirror my life’s path, with the direction was always headed towards God. The point leading to the mountain when things started to get a little squiggly represents Jessica being diagnosed with cancer. We were still headed forward but had to jet in and out to the sides a bit. The point of total diversion where the road hits the mountain and goes off in a completely different direction is where I feel I am on my life path right now….after she went back to be with The Lord. I don’t know which direction I’m currently facing and I know that I will never get back to where I was…but I know with God’s love and guidance that I will straighten out one day and find a completely new path. I’ll realized that I intend to always be headed towards God’s direction….It made me feel good to come to this realization.
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