In the past, when I have started a blog (you’re thinking right now that you haven’t ever seen any of those – trust me, count your blessings!) I have always searched for just the right header graphic and usually put one together myself with a handy little graphics program I have. This time the perfect header graphic came with the theme I chose for the blog.

I’m not a beach fan, so the birds over the ocean didn’t immediately appeal to me. Also, I wanted the theme colors to be “warmer” – golden, somehow. But blue is the most popular color on the internet for many reasons and gold doesn’t translate very well. At first I just put the birds there as a placeholder. To see what the blog would actually look like with a graphic up there.

Then I realized that those birds over the ocean are truly travelling an unseen path. When birds migrate, or even when they are just flying around, they don’t travel roads or paths at all. When a cow walks from the field to the place where she is fed, she makes a path. Birds don’t.

Especially when they migrate, and especially when they migrate for the first time, they are travelling under the guidance of an inner calling. I don’t think calling it instinct lessens the miraculousness (is that a word?) of it. The reality is that they don’t have a path and yet they know where to go.

Of course, we aren’t birds and no analogy can be followed too closely, but for me the birds are the perfect representation of my life at this moment – travelling for the first time a path I’m unable to see.

What image would you choose to represent your path today?