The Problem with Many Paths

With the WWII book, Turning Points, now launched and hopefully on its way to building a following, I can turn my attention to the other project I have been working on for quite a long time. I had started that manuscript 8 years ago. The book was almost ready, I thought, to peddle to some agent...and then, I realized, it is not even close. I had thought I had told the story in the best possible way, but now I see that there are many ways to tell it, and I should have chosen one of the other paths. I have about 250 pages, but probably a good half of them will end up being tossed. It's ok. In the end, revising and rethinking till you are sick of the whole mess is a good thing. Quite often, out of the ashes, a new and better creation arises. But I do sometimes wish the path had been a little clearer, without so many possible spurs. I wandered in so many ways that now, in retrospect, I wish I had not. One path. I do better with one path. Otherwise I tend to get lost.

I think God understands that. So He made it easy. "Jesus is THE WAY...."
It makes it impossible to be lost unless we are really bent on getting lost.

Joshua 3:4-5 (NIV)
Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between you and the ark; do not go near it.” [5] Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.”

John 14:6 (NIV)
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.


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