Choose Path: By Faith: Prayers and Poetry

Choose Path

Forward or backward

decisions clamor

for resolution

design choices.

Further to vision

described by hope,

faith in possibilities, or

depend on past.

Familiar territory

despite pain, brokenness,

forever a companion.

Desire beckons. Choose path.

Psalm 104:16, “The trees of the Lord drink their fill, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,”

Reflection Questions: Decision: By Faith: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1. What circumstances trigger a backwards look in your attitude?

2. Is the reason to not repeat mistakes, or a wish to return to old ways?

3. Does it affect yourself alone or does it include relationships around you?

4. When can a memory escape refresh you?

Share: How do you stop second-guessing from interfering with your direction?

Decision: By Faith: Prayers and Poetry

Hebrews 11: 15, “If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had the opportunity to return.”

Decision

Have you ever wrestled through a major life decision, taken the next step of faith, and known it has been the right choice? And then weeks or months, or sometimes even years, later begin to reflect on that decision and wonder if? Or should I turn back now?

And the answer is no, so you keep going forward. But the memories tug.

Memories are a joy and a blessing, unless we turn them into a longing to escape from today. Or become an obstacle when we re-live past pain and allow its emotional paralysis to infect us now.

And the past’s grip can keep us from new guidance and new opportunities.

We can let emotions alone rule our decisions. We can get stuck in the familiar because it somehow feels safe because it is knowable—controllable. Even the heartaches and disappointments can become a soft jail. 

And the strangers and exiles on this faith journey had no long-term blueprint.

Whatever the hold on their past once was, whether good or bad, they broke it to walk towards God’s definition of freedom. Not an easy walk—maybe even more challenging than they had ever done before.

And they walked with the Lord God, Jehovah. Emmanuel—God with us.

Your thoughts,

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     What circumstances trigger a backwards look in your attitude?

2.     Is the reason to not repeat mistakes, or a wish to return to old ways?

3.     Does it affect yourself alone or does it include relationships around you?

4.     When can a memory escape refresh you?

Share: How do you stop second-guessing from interfering with your direction?

Faith Seeds: Prayers and Poetry

Hebrews 11: 15, “If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had the opportunity to return.”

Have you ever wrestled through a major life decision, taken the next step of faith, and known it has been the right choice? And then weeks or months, or sometimes even years, later begin to reflect on that decision and wonder if? Or should I turn back now.

And the answer is no, so you keep going forward. But the memories tug.

Memories are a joy and a blessing, unless we turn them into a longing to escape from today. Or become an obstacle when we re-live past pain and allow its emotional paralysis to infect us now.

And the past’s grip can keep us from new guidance and new opportunities.

We can let emotions alone rule our decisions. We can get stuck in the familiar because it somehow feels safe because it is knowable—controllable. Even the heartaches and disappointments can become a soft jail. 

And the strangers and exiles on this faith journey had no long-term blueprint.

Whatever the hold on their past once was, whether good or bad, they broke it to walk towards God’s definition of freedom. Not an easy walk—maybe even more challenging than they had ever done before.

And they walked with the Lord God, Jehovah. Emmanuel—God with us.

Psalm of Worship: Psalm 138: 3, 8

“On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul.

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”