Just yesterday a friend turning grandmother for the first time said, “How did we get here so fast? It’s unbelievable how time has flown.” I can’t disagree. For when I take stock of me in the here and now, a fifty-something momma with an empty nest living in a new landscape, I am filled with a sense of wonder.

How did I get here?

A soft, quiet answer comes. It’s a stacking of moment on moment that builds into hours and days and years.

I see it more like a journey where one step after another surely leads somewhere. I question if it actually is going anywhere at times. I look back and play the should’ve, would’ve, could’ve game. I wish and pray for a straight smooth way. But it’s not. No, it’s more of a winding, looping, round and a round journey where two plus two rarely equals four and I’m pretty sure I’ve covered this patch of dirt more than once.

This journey has its full-circle moments and sit-right-down refuse to take another step seasons. At times I’m running without a care in the world and other times you’ll find me face down in the dirt for what seems like forever. That’s how journeys go.

Up… down… around… all the while a two-fold discovering is happening.

I’ll admit I was a little unsure about the name of this place, Discovering God’s Way. I thought discovering meant to find something as if that something were lost, or never before existed. But that’s not my understanding of God. God has always existed, and God has never, not one single time, been lost.

I was almost ready to change or at least consider changing the title of this sacred space, when I looked up the definition of discover. Merriam-Webster describes the meaning as to literally uncover, to show, to reveal, to find out, or to detect.

Hmm… I thought…this is exactly what I’ve come to learn about the spiritual life.

Every step is an uncovering, Jesus show me the way journey of discovery where we come to know who God really is and who we are too. It’s not finding what is lost or has never existed. It’s a revealing and detecting what has always been and will always be.

Most of all it is acknowledging that somewhere along the way we’ve lost our sight, and it is up to God to help us see clearly.

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

1 Corinthians 13:11-12 NLT

Clear vision takes living and loving.
Standing and falling.
Moving one step forward and two steps back.
It’s a process not a product.
A journey not a destination.
The middle not the end.

I used to think when your head emerged from baptismal waters everything was done. The sinful bent was straightened. Wayward desires got redirected. And if you lived right you received all the good.

What I know now is deciding to follow Jesus is just the beginning of a lifelong journey where every moment of every day is an opportunity to discover God’s way. You’ll find me sharing more about it here on the blog. If you don’t want to miss a thing, drop your name in the box next to the green subscribe button, and it will all be delivered to your inbox.

May you be blessed with strength and light to continue faith’s journey,

Stacy