In An Altar In The World Barbara Brown Taylor extols the virtues of getting lost. She notes: “Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people’s pastures.” Indeed, as encouragement she offers this: “Others before you have found a way in the wilderness, where there are as many angels as there are wild beasts, and plenty of other lost people too.”
That is and has been my experience when I get off the path — “there are as many angels as wild beasts, and plenty of other lost people too.” Soon enough, I usually realize that I am, in fact, not lost at all.
It occurs to me... 