Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Great peace have they who love your law;
for them there is no stumbling block.
Psalm 119:165
I stop in my tracks, captivated. Like a stream flowing around an obstacle, the brick path I’m walking splits, diverting to either side of the large rock that juts up in its way.
Clearly there was no removing this rock when the path was laid. And on this stony slope, no alternate route. The would-be stumbling block has become a beautiful sculpture, because a path was able to diverge.
How many obstacles can be transformed by God’s fluid grace? By holy peace that will always find its way?
Below the rock, the path rejoins, and I continue on my way, arriving surely at my destination.
