Near the end of one of Wendell Berry’s finest poems comes the advice to
“…Be like the fox / who makes more tracks than necessary, / some in the wrong direction.”
The status quo may expect us to seek to maximize our waking hours for pleasure and profit, to always think and speak like our tribe.
Life is richer (and more fun), though, when we are led by the Spirit to walk a perhaps unpredictable path, making tracks in the “wrong direction”.
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