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My thoughts are scattered, but what remains is a feeling of "significance" that only my soul comprehends, but not yet my mind.
Saul was on a road, en route to Damascus, when a light came upon him and his destiny/destination was forever changed.
The Lord led Saul (who would become Paul) to a street called Straight.
The Lord told Ananais to meet Saul on this Straight street.
Saul would soon find himself in the company of a group calling themselves The Way.
Jesus preached of this "Way", saying "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father, but by me."
He also called this Way the "straight and narrow"... (now significant to Saul's meeting with Ananias on Straight Street).
Peter addresses the Church as "pilgrims" several times in his letters.
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There is something about roads and destiny and destination,
and specifically "change" along the way,
that has instilled an awe within me.
I am contemplating the spiritual significance that the ancients gave to "crossroads", and even contemplating the natural roads etched within Creation itself. The ways of subatomic particles on their paths around the nucleus, and the paths of the heavens in orbits and dance.
I am not sure the significance of these thoughts,
but something about this topic is making me question my previous disbelief in the idea of "freewill".
Rather than thinking of these paths as constant and predictable patterns, maybe they are actually conduits of change!
I don't know what I'm really thinking about...
Perhaps someone has thought of such things before, and can add some understanding to my ramblings.
Saul was on a road, en route to Damascus, when a light came upon him and his destiny/destination was forever changed.
The Lord led Saul (who would become Paul) to a street called Straight.
The Lord told Ananais to meet Saul on this Straight street.
Saul would soon find himself in the company of a group calling themselves The Way.
Jesus preached of this "Way", saying "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father, but by me."
He also called this Way the "straight and narrow"... (now significant to Saul's meeting with Ananias on Straight Street).
Peter addresses the Church as "pilgrims" several times in his letters.
-------
There is something about roads and destiny and destination,
and specifically "change" along the way,
that has instilled an awe within me.
I am contemplating the spiritual significance that the ancients gave to "crossroads", and even contemplating the natural roads etched within Creation itself. The ways of subatomic particles on their paths around the nucleus, and the paths of the heavens in orbits and dance.
I am not sure the significance of these thoughts,
but something about this topic is making me question my previous disbelief in the idea of "freewill".
Rather than thinking of these paths as constant and predictable patterns, maybe they are actually conduits of change!
I don't know what I'm really thinking about...
Perhaps someone has thought of such things before, and can add some understanding to my ramblings.