Letting Love Lead

I was out to make my 10,000 steps today...and let Jezebel my dog take me for a long 90 min walk. As we passed out of her familiar haunts and trails, she began getting agitated, trying to get her bearings--"this is not where we usually go!" She walked side to side, her nose went down and up with eyes going side to side.  "Where am I," she said as she glanced back. Eventually, she just fell into the walk and moved ahead. Once we hit the familiar park, she was right at home and knew her way home. 

There's an internal compass in all of us that alerts us to unfamiliar turf, to uncertainty and the anxiety that comes from disorientation.  We know it as we walk into the daily morass of relationships--where is the compass for the internal landscape?  How do you find your way--feel at home and know your way home?  My lesson from Jezebel, aka "J-Bell," is trust; there is the settling down and allowing trust to lead.  It is that trust in ourselves that takes us in and out of the morass, that we can walk through unknown territory if we do so with trust--which we can even call love. 

I have never been in the school that Jesus was the incarnate ESP knowing everything along the way.  Rather, as the incarnate Son of God--he lived his life toward God as Father (which made him the Son).  That trust enfleshed the love to let the Father lead.  Every day, we only know that sun will come up and go down.  We have our chartered territory to travel--but the spiritual life begins when we allow our willingness to trust God to lead us with love through God only knows what!