Rose and I decided to go out of town for a few days to “get away” and celebrate our anniversary. We chose to stay at a hotel in the French Quarter in New Orleans. What were we thinking? At 4:30 this morning the noise was still incredible coming from Bourbon Street. We are not French Quarter people. We are certainly not Bourbon Street people. We would have been better off in a nice small hotel in the Garden District. We like to have a balcony and this hotel has one, but with that comes much we didn’t want and didn’t need.
It’s amazing how quickly made and ill conceived some of our choices are. I like the fact that we made a last minute decision. I like to think we are not too old to have a sense of adventure when includes some quick decisions. I just wish we had made a better one. We still had a good time and it only affected three days of our lives. Some of our decisions have so much more impact and for such a long time.
We sometimes have such a stake in our decisions that, even after we recognize we made a mistake, we insist on pushing forward on a path that is completely wrong for us. One bad decision can lead us to another and then another. Soon we are far away from where we know we should be. It’s like these GPS programs on our smart phones. When we first wander from the route we are advised to “make a u turn” but soon the program recalculates and draws up a new route to our destination. In life we are not always, that wise. Sometimes when far from our original path, we abandon our original destination and head some place else, or, no place at all.
If you find yourself at a place with no idea how you got there, isn’t it time to pray? It’s more important to consider where you need to be and how to get there, than to stubbornly attempt to press on a road that leads to no where or to no where good.
It may be too late to completely benefit from the trip God had originally planned for you, but it’s not to late to recalculate and get to where He wants you to be now. God is a God of multiple Plan Bs.
Look around, consider, and put yourself back on the right path and
Be blessed.
Nick
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