The oft mentioned labyrinth always brings to mind (at least to mine) the picture of the slayed Minotaur. The beast, killed by Theseus, was probably a job harder than finding his way out of the wicked maze.
Yet, whenever people talk about the labyrinth, the ingenuity of Ariadne and her idea of the usage of string for navigation within the walls are always the most important aspects of the entire myth.
Stop and think for a awhile now...
You're Theseus and after a long, mind-numbingly boring walk, you find yourself face to face with a demigod --- the beast Minotaur. After thrashing it out, getting your ass severely demarcated with his nasty horns and contemplating the horrors of a rabies shot, you finally conquer the hulking bovine.
You then follow the thread back out and head back home. Of course, you forget to change sails and cause your dad to die, but that isn't the point.
The point is --- you want people to recognize the courage and immensely intense fight you had. Alas! People only remember you...following the thread back out.
The crux of my inane rambling is, that many-a-time, the tough parts of life are in the execution of decisions but we are so caught up in the journey and the planning of the route that will take us to those decisions that they become the priority and mission itself.
It is then the same with my walk with God. Like Martha, I'm so caught up and entwined with how to go about being a good christian that I forget that it isn't WHAT I DO that makes me a christian but WHO sustains me that is.
The christian journey is not solely and mainly on how many good deeds I've done. No, it is about the relationship that I have with He that is truly what counts.
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