Monday, March 16, 2009

labyrinth

i came accross something interesting today.
word: labyrinths
Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.
function : hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.Theseus was aided by Ariadne who provided him with a fateful thread, literally the "clew", or "clue", to wind his way back again.

meaning: often used interchangeably with maze, but modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition.
For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path (unicursal) labyrinth has only a single Eulerian path to the center. A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.

i stumbled accross this word this morning while reading the introduction to the book of Amos.
the way in and the way out of the labyrinth is easy,
the way you enter is the way you leave.
however what ever you bring in and bring out of the path is different.
the thought struct me that the lesson you learnt from walking a labyrinth (routine of life)
could be so much more. if u're "awake and listening. "
sometimes, the truth is just staring right infront of you.
you just need to ask GOD to reveal.

are you listening to he's still small voice, in the labyrith you walk each day?
the journey is part of the revelation.

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