On the Way

“On the way to where you’re going

on the way to what’s ahead

there’s signs and wonders all around

if you will only lift your head.”

Loren Thornburg

We are all on our way somewhere...on our way to work, on our way to the store, to the bank, through our to do list with no time to stop. We can’t stop if we want to be on the way to a promotion, on the way to getting married, to dreams, to hopes of what will be our next reality. Sometimes we are so focused on getting there that we miss all the life that happens on the way there. There is beauty to be enjoyed, interactions to bring us hope, and opportunities to help. They are all around you. You don’t have to schedule it in because it is happening on the way to where you’re going. The beauty of the sky on your way to work, the friend you haven’t seen on your way to the store, the neighbor, the stranger in need of help. It’s there if you will lift your head from the business and worry to see it on the way. It may be the very thing that helps you get where you were on the way to...the promotion, the marriage, the dream. Don’t miss the life on the way to where you’re going.

“How could they miss it? Because instead of trusting God, they took over. They were absorbed in what they themselves were doing. They were so absorbed in their "God projects" that they didn't notice God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road...Careful! I've put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion, a stone you can't get around. But the stone is me! If you're looking for me, you'll find me on the way, not in the way.”

Romans 9:32-33 MSG

Jesus is an 'on the way' God. Much of what He did happened while He was on the way somewhere. It was on the way to Galilee that He ministered to the women at the well because Samaria was on the way (John 4). Can you imagine how different life must have been for that women and all who came to believe because Jesus stopped on the way? And knowing the heart of God, there is much joy that came to Jesus and the Father in seeing the women and all those in the village who came to believe. All of this, which happened on the way to somewhere else. There are many much like this woman in need of hope that God is putting on your way to where you are going. Just the same there are many God is putting on your way to speak hope to you. Will you be willing to look? Will you be willing to stop? Will you be willing to find that God is on the way to meet them through you?