The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. (C.G. Jung)
ROAD CLOSED has become a familiar sight to us during our time at the shore during this visit, usually involving lotsa detouring and some unplanned adventures. It’s made me think how like life this is, how many times we find that the road that we’re on is absolutely no-matter-how-much-you-tear-your-hair-out-and-wish-otherwise, CLOSED. Whether it’s as we attempt to navigate that sticky swampland of relationships, or jobs, or just ordinary chopping wood/carrying water kinda activities, we frequently find the way we’d planned to go is not gonna work. And it usually puts us in some unfamiliar territory where we have to find our way.
How we respond to times like these says a lot about where we might end up. We might decide to ignore the sign, and end up getting stuck in high water or worse, we might just stop and turn around and go home, we might proceed with such caution that we despair of ever getting anywhere, we might do the ripping hair out in frustration number, OR we might take it as an opportunity to discover some brand new possibilities. We might get lost for awhile, but in the old stories and fairy tales, isn’t that where the magic always happens??
Try this sign on for size instead!
