The Calf Path

There is a poem called the Calf Path which tells the story of a young calf wandering through the woods and how over the centuries his crooked path became a city’s crowded thoroughfare. Every day people and traffic grind their way around the twisted route first created by this calf!

Poet Sam Walter Foss gives this insight:

For thus such reverence is lent
to well established precedent.
For men are prone to go it blind
along the calf paths of the mind,
and work away from sun to sun
to do what other men have done.

I like the Calf Path. In listening or reading I’m often reminded of this warning about ‘blindly’ accepting words and thoughts of others; to use my own discrimination on whether these words hold Truth and if the do, what they may mean to me.

This principle must also hold true for you at this moment; reflect on what you’ve just read and spend time to understand the validity of your beliefs and knowledge.

As Jesus says in ‘Thomas’ “... then you will change your knowing” Logia 28:13