Mines of Moria

Freedom to choose. Isn't it such joy that we can choose from the simplest.... what we want to eat for dinner, where we want to hang out tonight, what we want to watch? To the complicated.... what we want to eat for dinner, where we want to hang out tonight, what we want to watch? Seriously, we can exercise our freedom to choose in life's most complicated conundrums.

And yet most of the time life throws at us circumstances that seem to take away our freedom to choose. Situations that put you in a corner where there seems to be no options. And yet the best way out of it is not going over it and skipping it all altogether but getting through it.

In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, when the fellowship was still at the start of their journey, they were supposed to go over (not through) the Mines of Moria but there were harsh cold conditions above, so they had no choice but to go through the mines.


Sometimes our journey feels like we are wandering aimlessly.....and yet God in his infinite wisdom tells us..... Be still and know that I am God. And amidst the chaos, a hand reaches out to us as if saying we can still choose, but we just have to let His hand guide us.

And if going through the mines will refine us, so be it. We are all works in progress and we all need to go through our own mines, whether we like it or not.