From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill
As I grew contemplative in my faith, questions arose as to how any of the things I had done fit into “a” wonderful plan for my life. Learning to see life as way opens answered that question.
You might want to draw a “map” of your life. Take a blank sheet of paper and write down some the important moments of your life. Put the “high” moments in the upper half of the sheet, the “low” ones below. Has your life followed a straight line? Does it move easily from one to the next? Did the high or low moments provide places where you could have followed another or a new direction – or did they point you on the same way?
Our lives reinforce the truth of a verse from Proverbs – “In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Paths – plural. The writer of Proverbs acknowledges that our lives don’t have just one path. We are offered many paths as we follow the sacred compass.