We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take.

Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.

It means, of course, that when you don't know what to do, when you don't know whether your character would do this or that, you get quiet and try to hear that still small voice inside. It will tell you what to do.

Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do.

This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." (JEREMIAH 6:16)

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

Honey, I've learned to ask not why but what? 'Now that I'm in this impossible place, Lord, what do I do next?

Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'