This is What I've Learned...From a Fork in the Road

   Resolution One: “I will live for God.” Resolution Two: “If no one else does, I still will.”  (Jonathan Edwards).

   Have you come to a fork in the road of a relationship? It happens.

   C.S. Lewis said, “We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.” 

   And so it is with some relationships, when we come to where the road forks into two and we can no longer travel in the same direction on the same road. It is then that we must make a decision to either bear right or left and journey on, in the bright hope that one day our diverging paths will merge again. 

   Proverbs 19:11 says, “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.”

   This makes me wonder, if C.S. Lewis, with all his brilliant insight, might see the forks in the roads he had to travel during his lifetime, differently now…from where the pavement ends and heaven begins. If he might say to us: “when you come to a fork in the road of a relationship, make a decision, to yield…to the ministry of r ...

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