My wife, Charlotte, and I are official “End to Enders.”
A framed certificate hanging on the wall in my office (okay it’s not so much an office as a corner of the living room) proves it. The Blue Ridge Parkway awards it as a promotional campaign to anyone who has traveled the entire length of the Parkway.
From earliest memory, my family has traveled and camped on the Parkway. When I was a boy, it was a road of mystery—waterfalls, incredible vistas, ancient log cabins, and wildlife in abundance. For me, the Parkway hosts a lifetime of memories, from camping to picnicking to racing my little brother up Mt. Pisgah.
From an abundance of mountaintops up and down the Parkway, one can look down and see miles of concrete ribbon as it winds along the ridge tops. As a boy, I imagined God seeing us this way, gazing down from some remote spot high above, occasionally brushing aside a cloud to get a better view.
As I’ve grown older, I’ve discovered my youthful analogy has held up. No, I don’t think God peers down through the clouds, although He might, but rather that He lives in me and with me. What comforts me, like my boyhood image of God looking down on the Parkway, is that God knows the twists and turns of my life from beginning to end.
God can see what I can’t—what lies around the bends in the road and what joys and dangers are hidden from me by the curves of life’s highway. He provides what I’ll need. He teaches me lessons that will serve me up ahead on the road—in some future situation I can’t even imagine now—because He knows where my life’s path is going.
I take comfort in that … when I remember it. Sometimes God has to remind me He is in control. And He knows the road ahead far better than I do.
When the curves in your life’s road seem too sharp to handle, remember God knows what lies around the corner and has an ‘End to Ender’ certificate awaiting you. Trust in Him.
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Kevin Spencer likes to play with words, help others play with them, and is privileged to be a staff writer for Christian Devotions. He lives with his beautiful blessing of a wife, Charlotte, and his amazing collegiate grandson, Caleb.