When I was learning to drive, one of the first principles I learned was that the car was going to head in the direction I was looking. That understanding answered one of my main fears about driving — how was I ever going to keep that car in it’s lane?

Some thirty plus years later I effortlessly keep my vehicle headed in the right direction. Now, if I was playing closer attention, I’d be able to exercise more control over my own life.

Andy Stanley in ” Principle of the Path” demonstrates that life is not just a series of random events driving us from one point to another — holding on for dear life. Life is in fact a series of paths we choose either deliberately or by failing to change direction, when we can see we’re heading down the wrong path. Read the rest of this entry