Spiritual Compass

This Advent season, I have been focusing on how to orient my life toward hope, peace, love, and joy. Like the four directions on a compass (north, south, east, and west), these four words can guide our lives not only to the stable where the One who has eternity dancing in his eyes lay away in a manger, these words can guide our lives everyday. There have been two thoughts I keep returning to with this image. First is that there is a difference between a compass and a GPS. My GPS tells me exactly where to go and how to get there. It has a set path it wants me to take (sometimes for very good reasons because of traffic!) The other day, I varied the path my GPS was guiding me. I kept going on one road I knew would also get me to my destination. The GPS tried three times to get me to take a U-Turn...I thought Siri sounded a bit annoyed each time I ignored and kept going my way. Now, I love my GPS, it has gotten me back on my path more times that I can count. But, sometimes