Posted by
Rick Pollard on Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:41:58 PM
Did we really see the path that we have been traveling down? The one that looks as if it has been hacked from the thickest forest or wind swept footprints in the desert. No real direction, almost constant wanderings. Earlier the path was so well defined that avoiding the next pot hole was of our choice.Now we feel as if we are being pushed on to the path and can not even control our own feet. Somewhere, back awhile ago we took the wrong turn.
Its not easy to retrace our steps, because of some of the places we have wandered; we would just as soon forget. But looking back we need to look at where we lost our direction, and restart on the good path from that point. Right about at that juncture we will find what we misplaced, what we didn't refer to for what we needed. What we were told was possibly not the right path at all.
Fifty years ago the change in direction started. Small but it was defiantly a push off the path. We started taking direction from those well intending(?) individuals who said they were looking out for our own good, but they were taking the road map we had been following and started to remove the directions. The directions they were re-writing led us away from the truths that had guided us for centuries. Those truths, as were enumerated in two Living Documents: Our Beloved Constitution and the core basis of that, the Bible.
Just turn around, standing on your tip toes, and honestly look back with your heart; you can just see the first steps in the different direction. Once that step was taken and the earth didn't crumble under our feet; we were able to be told again what was good for us. Did we even bother to ask the directions we were originally following if infact this path would lead us to where we really wanted to go?
Each additional step we were led to take changed the scenery, but we were being told that this was the path to take. Always for our own good, always by the force of reason and rationale,and sometimes by just plain lies. Just as Dorothy going through poppies we had been unconsicence of the fact that we became lost, convincing ourselves that we would soon find ourselves back on the right path. We became arrogant and wouldn't even look back on the original directions, no one was going to tell us we lost our way, we finally knew where we were going.
The problem with being lost is the new scenery keeps changing and we keep looking for a familiar land mark in unfamiliar territory. When we don't find it we just push on. Even when we ask for directions we cant be sure that those giving us the advise we seek even know the way. But hey, we were told earlier that this is the path to take, why did we trust them? What set of directions did they use to guide us? Funny thing is they seem to be just as lost as we are now.
Ever see someone parked on the side of the road looking at a map? At the original directions. In their hands is something they sought to give them guidance, something that has not been altered with misdirections. Carefully they study it, even writing down the best route possible for where they are heading. They don't want to be lost, they want to be assured of the direction that they need to go in to arrive at the place they desire.
Are the question marks starting to pop up in your heart as it hears the direction we have lost, or the way we have been duped into a direction that has turned out to be anything but the right one? What will give us that direction back? Most probably those original directions we failed to check earlier. Those directions that for centuries led many who never seemed to lose their way. Or if they did, they referred back to directions that had proven themselves from the beginning.
With the scenery almost becoming a constant blur daily, and the direction we've been led in no longer seemingly to make sense. Should we not then begin to look back at the directions that at one time we followed? Can we become any more lost in this life?