Roundabout

One of my favorite features of the Australian roadway is the roundabout. The Australian government has placed these wonderful inventions throughout the suburbs of Brisbane in order to conserve fuel. Roundabouts or more environmentally friendly than any other intersection control system. The wonderful thing about roundabouts is that you can go left, straight, right, or even the opposite direction than the one from which you came! If everything goes according to plan, everyone moves around the roundabout in a most fluid manner.

I wish that I could make some pithy comments relating life to a roundabout, like: "Only you can decide in which direction your life goes." "Even if you get turned around, you can still find the right path." "It's never too late to turn around."

But the truth is that sometimes, we have no control over the direction of our lives; we often are so disoriented, we have no idea what the right path is; and unfortunately, at times, we get so lost that we can't turn around.

I say these things no to depress my readers (both of you), but to reveal that we, as humans, mess things up pretty bad most of the time. And because Wilson McCoy and I got lost today. It seems to me that we are totally dependent upon God to find holiness, to find goodness, to find truth. Without that Divine Presence, we wouldn't have much of a chance to find good. But with that Divine Presence, we have the opportunity to move beyond the roundabout, beyond the map, beyond good directions. We have the opportunity to find comfort and refuge, no matter where we are on our journey.