Dr. Seuss was right to write a book about places you might go in your lifetime or for that matter the very next week! He phrases it as a declaration with an exclamation point! We as Church might ask it as a question: “Where are the places we will go?” You, as an individual, ask at many bends in the road journey of life, “where am I headed?”

The great book Pilgrims Progress (1684) is an allegory of the Christian traveling through life’s Swamps, Valleys, and Mountains. Wesley’s Journals are an impressive “spiritual adventure” as he describes his itinerate “outdoor” ministry of preaching in the villages and fields of 18th century England.

Our scriptures for the 2nd Sunday in Lent are about the forward movement of the call of Abraham, the need to be called to “new birth” at any age in John’s Gospel, and Paul’s plea in Romans to see where Jews and Gentiles together are headed! An exciting, life giving journey, full of unknown wilderness and new and old traveling companions is promised to all who step out in faith: “the just shall live by faith!”

Oh?? The places we will go? Look backward and see from where you have already come and who was there before you were! And open heart and hands for the next turn and bend in the road of life up ahead!

Thanks be to God~†

Pastor Barry