Retracing our steps

In Florence not all the streets appear on the brightly colored maps printed for travelers. We start out in the direction we want go on a street that appears on the map. Then we find ourselves on an unmarked street but still in the general direction we want to go. Sometimes forging ahead leads to the destination. And it almost always leading to meandering before figurimg out where we are. Sometimes we retrace our steps. It's like confession, or call it self reflection if that makes it sound more comfortable to you. Confession is to turn around, turn away from the path you are currently traveling to get back on the path you want. In theological language the path you want, and you want it because God desires that path for you, is the path that leads to God. Retracing our steps to find the streets other Christian travelers have also discovered lead in the way we want to go.