This post introduces a series of posts entitled intersections. As I continue to reflect on my life’s journey, I have begun to think about various intersections encountered along the way. Often we want to think that our journeys are, or we hope they are, straight paths. That’s not how life goes.
Intersections can come in numerous forms with various outcomes. We may take a wrong turn and find ourselves lost. We may encounter a Y intersection and have to make a decision without knowing where the path will lead us. Sometimes an intersection brings unexpected opportunities for adventure. Intersections can be dangerous. To ignore an intersection can bring disaster. Intersections may be encounters with other persons, for good or ill.
Although there were intersections my early years, I will confine my posts to those intersections that have occurred after my spiritual journey began.
At the time I would not have described it as the the beginning of a spiritual journey, but in retrospect my decision to leave home and attend Abilene Christian College is where I believe my spiritual journey began. I must admit spirituality was not at the forefront. Religion perhaps. I wanted to do right and escape to a refuge a thousand miles from my adolescent missteps and temptations and, of course guilt. That decision was prescient of a pattern that would emerge throughout my journey, namely, a misplaced belief that “the grass is always greener on the other side”.
It was not long after my arrival at ACC that I encountered an intersection that would prove to be most formative in the journey ahead.
