Changing Direction

Frederick Buechner writes: “Faith is the direction your feet start walking when you discover that you are loved.”

I suppose the change of direction may come for any of us prodigals who remembers a birthing, nurturing Relationship and a safe place of provision, care and love, and a house and rules we somehow thought we’d escaped, and whose steps take us back along roads and parthways to that place once more, hoping to find at least some measure of forgiveness.

And I suppose that when we discover that at that home and in those arms we not only receive mercy (in not getting what we deserve) but also grace (!) (in getting so much wonderfully more that we deeply, truly need and than we could have ever imagined or considered) - then our steps will also turn again, in faith compelled by Love, to take us out to find others who’ve not yet heard about such love, so that perhaps their steps too may turn homeward to its firery warmth, and to dreaming of newly imagined possibilities.