Stop and wonder where the good way is

​How many crossroads will I face today?

There will be many, I am sure.

Curt Thompson says, "wisdom is something we become or don't become as a result of the choices we make."

I think we all long to be wise. We all long to stand at the crossroads and intuitively know which is the best way for me to go. Only, maybe I don't often enough and long enough stand in those crossroads - and ask - where is the good way.

And then instead go the only way I've ever known. I follow the path blazed by trauma and shame. I don't stand at the crossroads; not for a second.

I simply go.

Because our ancient paths aren't only scriptures. They aren't only the books we've read. They aren't only the lessons we've heard and sometimes learned.

They are our memories. Some of them so deeply rooted in us that it feels unsafe to stand at the crossroads. To pause. To even believe there is a good way. And so we say I will not walk in it.

But there is a good way, or at the very least a better way.

There is a way that we can remember about our future that looks different than the ways we remember about our past. There is a promise about our future that wants more for us than the broken paths of our past.

But it demands of us to stand in the crossroads.

To ask where the good way is.

And then to walk in it.

When we don't often enough pause and wonder where the good way is, we can forget that there is one.

But there is. There is a wise way. It's waiting on us. It's waiting on the other side of our next choice.

Stop and pause and wonder where the good way is.....