May 17 of last year, I was driving home after the Montana Homeschool Convention in Kalispell. I had never driven that far by myself before, I always had company and usually I was the passenger. I was a little apprehensive about doing this trip by myself before I left, but as I was packing up to head home, I was excited for what I had learned.
I left Kalispell after checking out of my room, I got gas to make sure I could get home, I checked my map and headed home, or so I thought. My mind was paying more to attention to CD that I had picked up, the voice talking of life as a homeschool family, words of wisdom from a family who has taken this journey long before the kids came into my life.
On I drove, another CD, looking at the mountains and scenery, stopping to take pictures...it dawned on me, this was not the same scenery I saw as I journeyed to Kalispell, it was different....I had strayed off the path, and gone onto a road that I did not belong on...panic set in as I was not sure of where I was....I was lost.
I pulled over and took out my husbands cell phone (I am so glad he was insistant that I take it, because as a general rule, I won't have one) I described to him what had happened, with his calm reassuring voice, he figured out what I had done and gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the road back to my home.
I had taken my eyes of the goal...I allowed myself to get distracted and sidetracked onto a road I had no business being on...
So it is with Our Heavenly Father. To often I find myself caught up in sin, with a small voice lying to me trying to justify the behaviour..."it's only"..."it doesn't matter"....but it does, for it takes me farther away from God.
I call to my Heavenly Father, and in His calm reassuing and forgiving voice, He wipes away my tears of sorrow, He forgives me of my sin and allows me to turn myself around, He gets me back on the right road, the road to Home.....
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