Making a way

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 My five-year-old grandson loves to plant and water the garden. Now comes the hardest part of gardening. Waiting. It requires patience. Life has many moments where we have planted seeds and must wait for them to grow, mature, and have their product ripen to pick and enjoy. A lesson for a five-year-old. Yet we have times of finding ourselves in places with no paths. Where do I go next? I can’t see my way through or out of the mess in my life.   Isaiah 43:19 states: “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Let God sow a new path for you. Discern, and He will make a way through your wilderness, river, or desert. I started creating a path in my Marion garden that leads to a back garden that is now planted with watermelon, cucumbers, melon, and squash. The path is made of old stones and bricks I had lying around. It isn’t that pretty, but it is functional. Hopefully, it will be a path through a jungle of produce. Today, think of your path and ask Him to continue to pave it and walk with you on the path…

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