Tracks of Life

Everyday we pass them by, hundreds if not thousands coast through our peripheral gaze; windows of life waiting to be lived. Where are we? Driving "our" car. Like a train set, set on its charted course, we continue to move round and round; tracks we've individually laid over time. One by one they went down- childhood dreams, college and career, the job, the "perfect one", purpose and expectation.

Here we go! set off into our future, destination: honestly, unclear. We build and build and continue to lay them down, often times forgetting to look up. We place so much of our focus on the road map to where we are going, that we build a routine, or lets say, a formula. A well respected friend of mine once said, "You look at God's will as a set of tracks that you have to go down, where I see it as a sphere. Look at two things: are you being obedient to the Lord? And are you walking in wisdom? Now, what do you want to do?" The scripture says, "that man sets (creates) his plans and the Lord orchestrates his steps."

I guess what I am trying to say is, maybe we need to get out of the formula, off the tracks. Re-focus on what's really on our hearts? What is the Lord saying to you? We only have this one life here on earth.