Lent: led

Yesterday my world literature students and I were discussing Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Garden of the Forking Paths,” so I gave them each a labyrinth on a piece of paper and told them to trace their way to the center and back out. Every time I teach this lesson, it’s interesting to watch them discover the difference between a labyrinth and a maze. This time, one student exclaimed, ‘There are no choices! Just one path, and every time I think I’m getting close to the center, it sends me away again!’

Indeed. In a labyrinth, the only choice is whether to keep going as you are led.

this post is part of Rethink Church’s photo-a-day during Lent 2020