Tag: journey

Advent 13: No entry

Sometimes our journey through life hits a brick wall. The way we wanted to go is closed before us. What bars our way ahead may be of our own making,  it may be of someone else’s making or it may be a purely random event. Somehow we have to cope with disappointment and move on by a different route. If we can do so and still smile, so much the better.

 I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:12-13 

This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

Advent 10: Watch out for the unexpected

It is not everyday that you will come across a boat crossing the road! But life is full of unexpected things. Certainly for the Israelites on their journey to the promised land came across many unexpected surprises, not least finding the Red Sea opening up before them so they could cross with dry feet. And for Elijah, having killed all Queen Jezebel’s prophets, fled to the wilderness truly expected to die there and must have been most surprised when ravens brought him  a delivery of bread. 

Indeed the whole of the world God is creating overflows with the unexpected. 

There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan*, whom you formed to frolic there. Psalm 104:26

*Leviathan is a large sea creature