A Safety Net

When you come to a fork in the road, take it!    Yogi Berra

The paths I’ve taken in this life are like their natural counterparts: sometimes smooth and obvious, sometimes rocky and unclear, with all the other iterations tossed in randomly. I can hope for consistency, but I’d better be ready for surprises. When I come to those forks, in which direction do I go?

The obvious answer to me is to pray - to ask for direction, then listen for the answer. That isn’t how I’ve typically reacted though. I’ll moan about how there should be signs along the way, it should be clear, I shouldn’t have to ‘guess’, or whatever. These are the times I stubbornly refuse to play. Life is no fair, and I wanna sulk. I’m hardly listening to that ‘still, small voice’ when I’m loudly complaining about what is, and how it’s not what I wanted.

Here’s the deal: Love is. Love is all. Love remains. Love is still there when I’m ready to join it. It hasn’t gone anywhere, it doesn’t reject me or punish me for wherever my own stubbornness has led me. Love is the Safety Net, always there to catch me when I fall, to whisper “all is well” to my very being. I don’t get to set the parameters for what it is or for how that looks. All I need to do to acknowledge it to myself is to be open once again. 

When I find that fork in the road, I say THANK YOU, and I take it.

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