Walk This Way ...

 “Lord, open my eyes and heart that I might learn what it means to walk with you.”


I don't know about you but it's easier for me to run to God with my problems than it is for me to just walk beside Him each day.  That's sad because I know which way He prefers it.  It's obvious because whenever I need Him? Guess who's right there? That's the glory part of God; even when you won't walk beside Him, he still walks right beside you.  Even when we insist on walking miles out of the way or completely in the wrong direction. That level of patience is divine indeed.

Have you ever wanted to just go on a permanent vacation? Just go off to a campground like in Big Sur or an island somewhere and just...stay! Just kick back. Chill. Put your naked feet into a cool, running stream or bask beneath the light shade of a palm tree under the warmth of an ocean sun. Enough already with the stresses of life and work. Enough with the cares and worries and debts and those marching ants of fear and kick back, long term, like...forever.

Sorry guys but that's heaven. Here, before long, the campground will get boring, the Coleman stove will break or, for no reason at all, even the squirrels will get annoying. Here, on that island, eventually you will have to start a fire and that will take hours, if not days, and coconuts are hard to crack and every now and then a fin will pop up just off the shoreline and ruin any thoughts of a nice swim.

Here, in this life, the only taste of peace we will ever find is in a good, long walk with God each day. With God comes the context for each moment you live, and nothing you could ever do or say will make Him love you any less. On these walks you give Him the chance to remind you that you are such a special creation, meant for a special purpose, made by the same special God that created Jupiter in one hand and monarch butterflies in the other. This alone will be enough to carry you through the peaks and valleys alike.

Because when you are walking with God you are never, ever lost.