#Path June 18
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I heard a few things over the past few weeks that made me ponder how to approach obstacles placed in our PATH. We can describe a PATH as our passway thru life. We have to realize there always exist the chance the PATH will require navigating pebbles, stones, or boulders along the way.
I have read the parable about the priest and Levite walking down a PATH and ignoring a man beaten by robbers as told in Luke 10:31-38
I have learned that the most resilient people in life accept that suffering and hardship will be placed in their PATH.
I have seen the poetry verse by Robert Frost paraphrased about two PATHS diverged in the woods and someone took the PATH less traveled.
Over the past three months many of us have found something placed in our PATH. It might be unemployment, the pandemic, the changes to our routines, anger, frustration, or disillusionment.
Maybe those obstacles have been put in our PATH for a reason.
Maybe someone has been placed in our PATH because they need our help. Maybe someone has been placed in our PATH because we need their help.
Maybe stones are causing our PATH to become bumpy and uneven to help us grow our gratitude for a smooth ride.
Maybe a boulder is there to suggest we need to take a new PATH.
Sometimes as I write I become distracted with a particular song. Often that song conveys the message much stronger and clearer than my words. For today’s post I find that true with “Stones in My Passway”.
The song was written by Robert Johnson who died in 1938 at the age of 27. He recorded “Stones In My Passway” in 1937. It has been covered by many artists including Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and Joe Bonamassa.
The song begins with the following lyrics.
I got stones in my passway
And my road seem dark as night
I got stones in my passway
And my road seem dark as night
I have pains in my hearts
They have taken my appetite
One of favorite artists to cover the song is a young John Mellencamp. Early in his career he just epitomized James Dean cool.
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