Paths Like Pretzels

Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 4 a.m.

b'READ: PSALM 139; ISAIAH 41:10, 13\\n\\n\\n\\nMy life has taken me\\n\\n\\n\\nDown twisting and turning paths\\n\\n\\n\\nLike a pretzel\\n\\n\\n\\nI have never had it easy\\n\\n\\n\\nMy path has never been a straight line\\n\\n\\n\\nThrough every question and every fear \\n\\n\\n\\nThrough every change in my course\\n\\n\\n\\nI have felt You with me\\n\\n\\n\\nI have leaned on Your guidance\\n\\n\\n\\nI have known I am not alone\\n\\n\\n\\nMy life has made me wonder\\n\\n\\n\\nAnd question where I\\u2019m going\\n\\n\\n\\nThe rocky paths\\n\\n\\n\\nThey\\u2019ve made me think I need to turn around \\n\\n\\n\\nBut I have kept going\\n\\n\\n\\nYou have held me through it all\\n\\n\\n\\nYou have helped me find my way \\u2022 Emily Acker\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u2022 Have you had times in your life when everything feels confusing and every decision feels wrong? When we don\\u2019t know what to do, how could it be freeing to know that God doesn\\u2019t expect us to have all the answers, and He invites us to rely on Him?\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u2022 God sees us, in all our questions and uncertainties, and He has compassion on us. He doesn\\u2019t always give us answers to every question, yet He does promise to be with us and help us. Though the journey of our lives may seem twisting and turning, He is working out His good purposes through every bend in the road and every setback, and He is transforming us more and more into the image of our loving Savior, Jesus (Romans 8:28-29). How might knowing that God understands every detail about our lives, even when we don\\u2019t, give us hope in times of uncertainty?\\n\\n\\n\\nYour word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path. Psalm 119:105 (CSB)'