What is a sign? A sign is indicative of a direction of some sort. Signs tell us alot. They show us which way to a desired venue. They show us where we should be taking a right turn..or left. Our built-in GPS, if you will??? They teach us to honor the skills that are both learned and intuitive. They are the there for reasons.
Who delivers our signs? Well they could be the State of RI?...they could be Rand-McNally? But ultimately they are God. Truly. The Universal God is delivering signs to us daily. They are answers to hard questions. They are answers to heartache. They are answers. Period.
Why do we continue to drive and not stop for directions?? I know! I know. It is the AGE-OLD joke placed on "man-kind" for a century. We don't ask because we are not interested in knowing. It is that simple. We don't look. We don't see the man on the runway flaggin'us in dressed in tangerine clothes...we don't' want the knowledge. Are we TOO smart? Too egotistical? Too stubborn? Too jealous? Too everything? We think we know the right response.. We think .
Maps... it is all therefor us. The maps have been made and we just need to roll them out and look at the direction we want to go. The direction of where we want to take ourselves. Without lying about the destination.
This week in the Gospel I am talking about measuring God's Love for us and knowing that God is our runway man. He speaks of not raising the alternative route...but staying on his path. We may call it I95...as opposed to Rt 1A. The direct route to our desires. We talked about meanness and when someone offers a comment or directive an not "rising to its moment". We talk of staying on the highway of our life.
I placed a simple measurement balance before the children this week and placed some scrabble tiles on one side of our balance...they read "BAD". Then we talked about what bad things someone may say or do to you to provoke your direction.... then I placed "MEAN" on the other side and then like magic the other side of the balance got heavier...the response side replied, "NO"...and so on... the result is that back and forth behavior in negativity never balances your scales. The sign was to walk away and not respond to your friend's mean remark/behavior. Thus resulting in your side of the scale being higher as a result of your restraint, not behave in the fashion that they did. Your scale pushing you "higher" to heaven... well maybe.
The signs in your life are very clear most of the time. Even like my last example. You don't need to rise to someones ill choice of publicly embarrassing you. You can continue listening and watching your signs and GPS to steer you toward or away from what it is right or wrong.
Signs exist for reasons.To point us into the light of good direction. They show us where we need to be... not where we think we should be headed.
Dawn M. Grinnell
Director of EDS, and Christian Formation Emmanuel Church
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