Take Us Home!!

By: Drew Henderson, DC

Some years ago when I was attending North Georgia College a few friends and I would go walking and hiking in the woods. We would park our car and take one of the trails that went far up into the hills where my friend could let her German shepherd walk without a leash. After a few trips we got to know the trails by heart.

One day we brought another friend with us and we all got so busy talking that we didn’t notice where we were. Finally my friend looked at her watch and said, “Gosh, I have to get back and go to my evening class! Which way do we go?” That’s when I realized we were lost.

We were surrounded by woods and couldn’t see too far ahead of us. After trying several times to retrace our steps, we lost all sense of direction. “Wait a minute,” Chloe said. “If anyone knows the way back its Digger” (the German shepherd).

She looked at Digger, and in a commanding voice said, “Digger, take us home!”

Digger brushed past us to lead the way. But after a little while, both of us knew it wasn’t the way we had come. Digger had taken us off the trail and was leading us up and down some pretty steep hills. He was full of confidence and kept looking back at us as if to reassure us. But the farther we went, the more nervous we got.

Then, suddenly, we came out of the woods and into a huge meadow. At the end of the meadow we looked down a slope and saw the parking lot far below us. “We’re home!” we all shouted as we commenced to make it to the car with a little more spring in our step.

“She knew where she was going all the time,” my friend said. “It just wasn’t the same way we came.”

“No,” I agreed, it was a better way.

Since then I’ve always tried to remember that when I ask God for guidance—and I do it often—I have to trust Him to know which way is best for me. Even if I haven’t gone that way before.

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