Dangerous Curves

I went for a drive this morning to Shelby Forest. It's a state park that's about a half hour from the church. I drove out there to see if there were any options available for my youth who want to take a camping trip next month. It was a disappointment because there was no one there when I got there and basically my drive out there had become pointless. Then I remembered the signs, just like the one above, on the way in. Now, being a girl from Pittsburgh, I was expecting some really steep hills that my car would really have to struggle to get up. However, they weren't very steep at all. Sections of the road reminded me of my neighborhood in Pittsburgh with all the trees and the curves of the road. What made the roads dangerous though was the hairpin turns and the road falling away due to erosion.

That got me thinking about dangerous curves.....and how many ways those two words can be taken. ~Dangerous curves could mean literally just that. There are some curves out there that are really dangerous because they're very tight and some are even blind making navigating those turns even harder.

~Dangerous curves could be used to describe the consequences of a decision. In most cases, it's a bad decision that leads to another bad decision that leads to another bad decisions......see where I'm going with this. In other cases, it could be that one hasty decision leads to another and you can end up spiraling out of control with all of those decisions not knowing how you got there in the first place. Now, that doesn't mean that the hasty decisions were bad. It just means that sometimes things move really fast and you have to make decisions quickly. Once the dust settles from all that decision making, you can be left wondering how on earth you got to where you are.

Is life full of dangerous curves? Oh yes. The trick is knowing how to navigate those curves......or knowing someone who can guide you through those curves.