Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, b. 1832

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
“Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” was his response.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

How frequently do I try to decide which way I’ll take when I don’t even know where I’m going?

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:5-6

Ofcourse, the most important “map” is Jesus Himself. When I don’t know which way to go, what choice to make, I must remember to choose to follow Jesus above all else. If I’m not doing that, it really doesn’t matter what I choose. Ultimately, I won’t be going anywhere.
Today, in case you hadn’t guessed already, is the birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are full of “quotables”. Try these:

“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never forget!”
“You will, though,” The Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.” (Through the Looking Glass)

“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.”

I hope you have some jam today and remember all your horrors without writing yourself a note. As for me, I have no jam and the King and I must be about the same age.

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