Journey

The broad, wide road is straight, quick, barren. Like a paved highway with gates and rails.

Steel and asphalt. Lifeless. we can see all the way to the end, without mystery or expectation.

But the narrow road is a quaint little dirt path, twisting, turning, overgrown. full of life. Slender plants, towering trees,  jagged rocks, stunning flowers, twirling vines all accompany this trail of discovery. The path rises and falls. Like En Gedi. An ascent weaving through bubbling streams and shady thickets, misting waterfalls and rapid brooks.  We usually can't see that far ahead, even just around the corner; we don't know where the trail leads or where the journey will take us; there is always something novel and surprising waiting. Who knows what we'll find, or who we'll meet? Something new, something different. something breathtaking.

We change so much, but don't always realize it. The fact is, that when we encounter the living God, everything changes.

Everything that we are now and becoming; everything that we would not have been, having not been encountered by God, this the dramatic, transformative change that we can't always see, and aren't always aware of.