I love the challenge of a maze—the pursuit of a goal with hidden dead ends and wrong turns along the way. Life is like that too, isn’t it? Although the fun vanishes when you get stuck and are unable to find your way

Has God ever spoken to you, warned you, chastened you, encouraged you, taken you a new direction, grown you, comforted you, shown you His love--through the calamities happening in the world around you?

Have you messed up? … Perhaps it started as a small compromise or little white lie, maybe you turned left when we know we should have turned right. The list is endless. Then one day you wake up to a different reality than you expected to be in, and you wonder how you got there.

God loves us unconditionally and wants the best for us. But we are very short-sighted, focusing only on what we see, setting our eyes horizontally towards things of this world. God’s best is much bigger.

When you put your hope in Jesus you were transformed into a new creation, so why do you still see yourself in your old skin?

Did you accomplish last year’s resolutions? Did you exceed your expectations, or did you fall miserably short? What will you do differently this year to assure success?

Have you ever gotten in a mess that was too big for you to untangle by yourself?

Look around you. Do you see the small green leaves pushing up between the sidewalk, yellow flowers growing in a field, the sun shining in the sky?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had an omniscient observer looking down our life’s maze . . .

Do you ever feel that you are a broken part of a better whole? If only . . .