LIFE IS A MAZE(ing) | Discerning Doors and Detours | Acts 6:6-10 | Week 4

Last weekend as the elders were headed up to Estes Park for our retreat, our middle school group was also heading up to a retreat at Buena Vista.  They had left at 5:00 p.m. and were heading up 285 and there was a sign over the road that said, "Road Closure in Fairplay," which isn't a good thing if you're headed to Buena Vista.  Through a few radio calls back and forth to the various vans, they decided to take a little bit of a detour.  They eventually found themselves at Wadsworth and Chatfield, right near where they left from!  From there, they headed up I-70 to miss the road closure and what was suppose to be a two-and-a-half hour trip up to the mountains ended up being a five hour excursion.  

Isn't it interesting how we spend most of our lives trying to avoid situations like that and they're the very things that stick with us?  Have you ever thought about that?  The perfect trip isn't usually the one you remember the details of, it's the one that was a total mess.  You remember that trip where nothing went right?  Wasn't that great?!   We spend a lot of our lives trying to figure out what's the right way to go and what's the right thing to do.  It's oftentimes in those in-betweens, in those detours, in those closed doors, that life actually starts to come alive.  That's why we've called this series "Life is A Maze(ing)."  Because it is!  It's both...