Highlights from lyrics to “Crossroads” by Joy Katzen-Guthrie and Lisette Brodey:There’s so much to learn, just heeding our inner voice … at the crossroads of life.
Life is a challenge we must face . . . God guides us on our way.
As we move on, we look down the road . . . while a new life waits for us to arrive.
Love only grows and grows at the crossroads of life.
Responsive Reading for July 23
“Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice? On the top of the heights along the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand. . . . I am understanding. By me kings reign and lawgivers establish justice. . . Those who love me I also love, and those who seek me find me” (Proverbs 8:1-17).
There’s so much to learn, just heeding our inner voice … at the crossroads of life.
“Thus says the Lord: Stand by the earliest roads, ask the pathways of old, ‘Which is the way to good?’ and walk in it; thus you will find rest for yourselves” Jeremiah 6:16
Life is a challenge we must face . . . God guides us on our way.
“…Say to the prisoners: Come out! To those in darkness . . . along the roadways they shall find pasture, on every barren height shall their pastures be. . . I will turn all my mountains into roadways, and make my highways level” (Isaiah 49:9-11).
As we move on, we look down the road . . . while a new life waits for us to arrive.
“With weeping they shall come, but with compassion I will guide them; I will lead them to streams of water, on a level road, without stumbling” (Jeremiah 31:9).
Love only grows and grows at the crossroads of life.