Me:  Do you like your train ride?

Prodigal:  This ride is ’bout as fast as a wagon pulled by a team of sick turtles.

Me:  Sometimes you just have to have patience.

 

 

This is from the book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

 

We all want progress.  But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be.  And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.  If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.  We have all seen this when doing arithmetic.  When I have started a sum the wrong way, the sooner I admit this and go back and start again, the faster I shall get on.  There is nothing progressive about being pig headed and refusing to admit a mistake.

 

Are you on the right road?  Really only God can show you that.  People may think they can show you, but only God has that power.

 

Exodus 14:13

And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today.  For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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