Spent the day in Alexander City today doing business things I’ve been putting off. Sad in a way to cut some more ties with Alexander City but life moves on down the highway and we choose how to accept the journey. My home is here in Roanoke with my family and I’m content with the life I’ve created. Chief told me a few days before he died to go home to my family when he died, telling me they would take care of me and they have.

After my business was over I spent the afternoon with my dearest friend. Today was her birthday so I took lunch over to her house and we laughed the afternoon away. Wish I could drag her to Roanoke to live! We’ve got a beach trip planned for October with my niece and oldest sister-in-law, going to visit my cousin who lives in Florida. We discussed our wardrobe, the need for new bikinis and matching pajamas, our menus for breakfast and lunch each day, the delicious sea food we’re going to eat each night, our games of Scrabble and Monopoly. And we laughed about our ankle deep ocean swimming and our shark phobias. We’ve put our Mason jar banks out to save up for our beach trip. We’ll enjoy the planning as much as the traveling.

Sat down after supper, cleaning off my desk to start writing, and I saw this quote — “God will tell us the way to go, but then we have to do the walking.” God is always walking with us, sometimes ahead of us and sometimes behind us. He already knows which way we should go but he lets us choose our path. Even when we stumble along, he waits patiently for our prayers asking for help. Sometimes he puts the rocks on our path to detour us in a different direction. Sometimes we put the obstacles in our own paths when we have moments of doubt and disbelief. Sometimes we take a path we don’t understand but at the end of the journey we realize God is always guiding us correctly.

“If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.” — Dwight L. Moody

Psalm 139:5 reads, “You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.” Some of us don’t walk with God each day. We amble alone along our life’s journey, trusting we know what’s best. Soon as we hit a road block, a moment of crisis, we run to God begging for forgiveness, promising to walk with him if he’ll just clear this path of destruction we’re traveling. Matthew Harmon writes “walking with the Spirit means to live a life that depends on the Holy Spirit’s power to grow in godliness, to obey God’s commands, and to experience increasing intimacy with God.”

Walking with God grows our faith and opens the door to prayer. If we walk with faith in God, he will always lead us to a blessing.

“The most powerful, life-changing truths that God will teach us are only learned over a continuous process of daily walking with Him.” — Alisa Hope Wagner