Detours

Ever run into one of those big orange signs on the road that says "Detour" and then an arrow pointing in the direction of the detour? Of course you have. And when that happens you probably do the same thing I do: swear a lot but continue. It's life, it happens.

But what about a detour on a different kind of road? The road that is your life. How do you deal with that? Those detours are not so easy to go around. They can halt you right where you are with no arrow pointing in the direction you are now supposed to head. What do you do? Do you just sit there, staring at the sign (as invisible as it is), or do you pick yourself up and find your own arrow?

I've run into a lot of detours in my life. I wish I could say that I stopped, thought about what to do, and did it. But I didn't. Not always. There were many times where I just sat there, staring at the sign, not knowing what to do or where to go. I couldn't even think about how to handle the detour, and sometimes, I didn't even want to. It was at those times in my life that I was in the passenger seat and someone else was driving. It was also those times when I needed that person to drive. I needed that person to find that arrow for me and start me in the right direction. It was only then that I was able to get into the driver seat and do the driving, finding the arrows on my own.