“Cheshire-puss,” said Alice, “would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to go,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where – ,” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

“- so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.

“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”

(Lewis Carrol, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”)

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18 KJV).

Where is God leading your congregation? If you don’t know, it doesn’t matter how you lead.

“Why don’t you go see a doctor?” she said.

Actually, she’s been saying this for over two weeks. You see, I’ve been coughing for two weeks and it’s been miserable for her…and me too.

I hate going to the doctor. It always takes longer than it should. It always feels like a waste of time. Who designs a waiting room, for a waiting room?

But after two weeks of tossing and turning until three or four in the morning because of the coughing, I gave in and went to the doctor this morning.

I went to see the doctor for a cough.

Came out of the doctor’s office with a prescription for antibiotics and a future appointment for a colonoscopy!

COLONOSCOPY!!!

That was not on my radar. That was not the plan.

What the freak! I just wanted something for my cough!

That’s why I hate going to the doctor