Blog Post 6/29/2023 - The Way direct or indirect?

The Way direct or indirect?

“The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright was fond of an incident that may have seemed insignificant at the time but had a profound influence on the rest of his life.  The winter he was 9, he went walking across a snow-covered field with his reserved, no-nonsense uncle. As the two of them reached the far end of the field, his uncle stopped him.

He pointed out his own tracks in the snow, straight and true as an arrow's flight, and then young Frank's tracks meandering all over the field. ‘Notice how your tracks wander aimlessly from the fence to the cattle to the woods and back again,’ his uncle said. ‘And see how my tracks aim directly to my goal. There is an important lesson in that.’

Years later the world-famous architect liked to tell how the experience had contributed to his philosophy in life. ‘I determined right then,’ he'd say with a twinkle in his eye, ‘not to miss the things in life, that my uncle had missed.  Frank Lloyd Wright saw in those tracks what his uncle could not: It is easy to let the demands of life keep us from the joys of living.”  [Sermons.com]

 Jesus offers us “tracks” “a Way” that wanders, it is up to use to follow His “Way”, His “Path” and we will find after we wander following it when we look back it will be a straight line.

I wonder as I wander.  I will remember the words of the Lord.  I will recall his wonders of old.

 

May God Be Praised.