Good Morning,

It’s been a while since I have had the clarity of thought to sit down and pound something out on the keyboard. October has been a blur, the autumn winds have brought many changes. How’s October been for you?

As I drove my youngest to preschool this morning we were listening to one of his favorite songs..right now:) It is a Rascal Flat song called “The Broken Road”.  He loves this song, but after the tenth time repeated my mind just tuned the song out. After a while I realized my three year old was quietly singing along,  I thought I better listen with intentionality to the words to the song. The song is a love song, which speaks to the broken, unpredictableness of life and yet at the end of the broken road true love is found. Okay I think to myself the words are okay, the message mellow this is okay for my little man to be singing along to. 

Out of the blue he ask me “why is the road is broken, and why would you want to take a broken road”? “They need to be straight”, he says, “you won’t see where you are going”. At that moment my eyes stung with tears, you see this past weekend, my honey and I were able to get away for a couple days. When we arrived to our location the straightness and flatness of the terrain astonished me. I must have commented on it ten times over the course of four days. This past weekend felt a bit like a bubble, a bubble that insulated me from reality. The roads were straight, smooth, predicable, an absolute contrast to the roads we have travelled for the past three years.

As I tried to hold back the tears that were welling up in my eyes I answered my little dude saying that broken roads are not easy to “drive on” but with Jesus no matter how bumpy the roads are they can be travelled on. 

He then preceded to ask me if I’ve ever been on a broken road.

“Yes” I answered.

 He then queried if I was still on a broken road, and as tears fell I quietly answered yes…….to which he replied…”well we’ve got Jesus mommy, it will be okay”!

So friend can I encourage you today no matter what the terrain is looking like as you peer down your road,remember with Jesus you never travel alone.

GOD’s Message yet again: “Go stand at the crossroads and look around. Ask for directions to the old road, The tried and true road. Then take it. Discover the right route for your souls. But they said, ‘Nothing doing. We aren’t going that way.’ Jer. 6:16 Message

Journey On,

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