Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Familiar.
It had been a road traveled often. The difference that night had been my vision. Driving home with my contacts still in place as I had forgotten my glasses that night, all perception and sense of distance was gone.
The first wrong turn was all it took and I was completely lost. Panic set in as I continued driving and nothing familiar was around me at all. The streets only became darker and less familiar.
I grabbed my cellphone to call the most familiar voice and cried out, “I have no idea where I am or how to get home!”
He told me to pull over to the side of the road and stay put, and continued asking me questions. It seemed like forever, but in what was now a “Where’s Waldo?” game, he began to search for me.
Finally he asked, “You OK? I am now right behind you. I am going to pull out and you follow me home.”
Familiar –> It’s what we are used to seeing or hearing. It’s what we are well acquainted with and know personally, best off through experience.
We’ve laughed about the incident often since that night a few months ago. He loves to remind me of the night he saved me.
The lesson has not been lost on me though.
“You own ears will hear him. Right behind you a voice will say: “This is the way you should go,” whether to the right or to the left.” (Isaiah 30:21, NLT)
God will always be faithful to guide me as I am faithful to hear His voice.
Today I may be joining … Five Minute Friday and Faith On Fire and Faith Filled Friday and Faith ”˜N Friends and Fresh Market Friday .
Joanne,
That is too much God that you are my neighbour today. I would have written about how it is great to have such familiar faces – faces of friends I have never met but are my friends. But I didn’t.
I wrote on Medium today and not my blog.
Love your story.
Blessings
Janis
Janis, I am glad you liked my story. Yes, I like things to be familiar and known 🙂
I know the feeling–once I make a wrong turn, I am lost. Love the connection to God’s promise, in life he will show us the way to go. Have a blessed weekend!
The worst part for me is that I go by landmarks and not street signs. I truly need things to look familiar. Grateful that I do not ever need to navigate this life alone!
I love your story and I can so relate…not exactly my story, but similarly…
And this familiar scripture from Isaiah seems to be popping up in my life – everywhere I turn… I am glad I visited you today at the link up. #15 #fmf neighbor.
I love when Scripture is repeated in my life. I am glad you visited as well!
Good thing we have people who will rescue us. I’m in the 14 spot this week.
Joanne, I can so relate to this story, from the other side. We have a sanctuary for abandoned dogs, and there have been so many times we’ve been on the roa, and have seen a lost and hopeless, stray…and stepped out, arms open, to say, “We’re here. Come to me, and come home.”
enali the Happy Husky can attest to this; she had been dumped on a snowy day, and all I had to do was open the car door, and she was in my lap, shivering and crying.
Today she is the most faithful and loving of pals…though being a Husky she is also noisy and impulsive and sometimes a complete undisciplined mess!
Andrew, I love that you shared about Enali. Great analogy in her story as well. May we be just like her … faithful and loving to The One who has rescued us!