Rerouting

As I was driving in my car day before yesterday I was listening to a Christian radio station and wasn't paying too much attention to the topic of conversation. But a small statement caught my attention and really got me thinking. The statement had to do with rerouting and going in a new direction. To reroute means to change the route or path of, to send another way. You are on a path and it turns out it was the wrong path and something happens and the path is different from where you were. I never thought of my marriage is the wrong path. I actually thought I was on the right one and heading in the right direction in my life. I am not sure why or how I got onto the wrong path. It wasn't a conscious decision that I made. I never thought I was doing something wrong, but maybe I was. Maybe God has a different life planned for me and the only thing He could do was to drastically reroute me and my plans I had for my life.

It's old news to me now - my life is different. My life was turned on its side and violently shaken to its core. I am thankful now that the shaking has stopped and the path has changed. I am happy. I like my new path even though at first it seemed unbearable and treacherous. I don't really have any answers. I don't really know where this new path is going to take me. I don't really know what God's plans are for my life. I seek His will and I embrace it - sometimes willingly and at other times not so willingly. It's not easy and I have a multitude of unanswered questions that will most likely never end. But I am okay with that. If I can find the peace and faith to trust God, then everything will work out and the light at the end of the tunnel is extremely, powerfully bright.

Rerouted. I was wrong. Things changed. New path. Exciting.