What do we know? -Anna Grace Gay

“Neither the sweet affection for my son, nor piety due my father, nor the love I owed  Penelope to bring her joy Could drive from me the burning to go forth to gain experience of the world, and learn of every human vice, and human worth.” Canto Twenty-six, lines 94-99.  

As I was reading the commentary on this particular canto, I found it very interesting. We as humans living in this world have our own desires. We have things we know we want to do or think we should do. A lot of times those are dreams and ambitions that we feel like we would be good at and need to pursue. Sometimes, like Ulysses, we want to follow those dreams more than we want to invest in maybe relationships and areas of life that are right in front of us. We can get into tunnel vision with the mindset of this is what I want to do and this is how I want to do it. But I don’t believe that is how we should approach the future or how Ulysses should have gone about the future. The main focus is that God has to be in your plans. Not just in them, those plans need to be the ones that He has already decided for your life. Jeremiah 29:11 says “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to proser you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”  If we go against His plans, they will not be blessed. But on the other side, if we follow God's commands and His plans for our life then those plans will give us hope. I love the question posed at the beginning of the commentary: What is there that a man may not know?  We don’t know what the future holds. We can't know, there is no way. How could we ever know all the amazing things God could have in store for us? All we have to do is trust Him. Ulysses was following what he wanted to do and we read where that landed him. If we seek God and press into Him then we can be certain of what is to be and be certain that it will be blessed! 

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