Can one WRONG TURN make you LOSE your WAY?

Answer 1

Absolutely. Think about the first time you told a lie. Wasn't it a bit easier the second time? Or the third? Everything is easier the more you do it---the good and the bad. So if you take one wrong turn and don't fight your way back to the path you want you will end up making more wrong turns until you have totally lost your way.

The wrong path, or the right path, starts with one step.

Answer 2

A wrong turn will not make you lose your way. What happens after you make the wrong turn has a larger effect. I remember an old cowboy book I read several years ago that addresses this. The story was of two cowboys who ended up on opposite sides of the law. When they were younger, they had both rustled a few cows a couple of times.

In the showdown, they are talking about why they ended up facing each other. One of them commented about how life is not a road but a path across gravel. As a person walks thru life trying to maintain the "straight path," his feet turns on the gravel. A little here and a little here. Without the effort to correct this, you end up going way off course. That is how they came to be on opposite sides and each having a duty to perform.

Answer 3

Not if you keep making the wrong turn in the same direction for you will eventually come back to the starting point, and then you can re adjust, and take a new route. One only loses the way when they refuse to recognize right off the bat that they have taken the wrong turn.

Answer 4

depends upon the situation .
if there is no substitute then yes .
so one has to be very careful while selecting a way
but if you turn a wrong way unintentionally and you did not know then there is a help so called divine help for you that makes you to get out that way and put you on right track.
i believe that if you have made a wrong turn and in that result all doors have been closed but if you do realize your mistake and make confession then you would have 100 doors' keys some doors are leading to right track and some are leading to wronf it is up to you 'what do you select?'.

Answer 5

On a new road where new excitements lurk at every corner, we amuse ourselves by taking the risk of finding out what marvel may lie ahead on that turn. Finding out later that it's indeed a turn that proves wrong, we panic, we despair, we go mad...sometimes to the extent of punishing our self by blaming it over and over again. In this frenzy we're in, it'll be more disastrous if we don't take courage to go back...even if it means losing our face. Right ! we may have made the wrong decision...and may have lost our integrity for a moment,..but there are always countless options to straighten up your wrong turn. Realizing your mistake takes you back at the start of the line. So what? You're not the only soul who may have screwed up along the way. You know exactly where you've been, and this will guide you to not losing your way again.

Answer 6

Yes. But it's contingent on knowing the WAY.

Sometimes we can misconstrue the path we are on, thinking the "Way" is something it isn't. In that case, the "wrong turn" becomes highly relative. And further, the "wrong turn," could actually take you back to the right place, if your Way was erroneous to begin with.

However, if we understand that Christ is the Way, then it becomes more clear when we are losing our Way. In that context, one wrong turn can in fact make you lose your way, but the greatest thing about our Lord is that He will leave the entire flock to go find it. He will not give up until He finds us and sets us on the right path again.

Answer 7

No. Your destination never should change, even if you seemingly take a wrong turn on the way. Maintain a sense of optimism in your over-all view of where you want to go with your life. Always shoot for the best - never lose priority of what direction you feel you deserve to go. Some roads always have obstacles, but it doesn't mean you have to do a u-turn to steer away from your goals.

Answer 8

Depends what was wrong with it. We learn from our mistakes or wrongs we do. This philosophy is rather common knowledge, but knowledge does not in its self protect from damage neither spiritual nor physical. Is it not strange that we feel worse shame when we make an honest mistake, error or wrong, but when blaming others, feeling the rage of indignation, humiliation and injustice, we actually feel corrected in our self worth. If you are not well prepared, taught, trained and self disciplined just so, you may find your self on the evil side, such as those marines at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. We are so stupid as to suppose that our will ordinates and confers omniscience upon us and we fail to be God simply because we did not choose to be God. Yes, just one wrong turn and then you are accepted into the sanctum of the self righteous. Righteousness is a self perpetuating actuality, right self.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

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Answer 9

I have been down that “journey” before, when the first wrong “turn” took me far away from where I should have gone. As I continued on, one wrong turn after another, I became more and more desperate to find my way home. And I did finally emerge from the gloom, but many roads and turns after. I was shaken and weakened from the exhaustion of it all, and from the effort it took to come back onto the right path.

But it was a good lesson learnt and I became a wiser person after that bleak “adventure”. I have learnt to persuade my mind to trust my heart and listen to my soul before making decisions at life’s many crossroads. And I knew that my prayers were answered, deep within that dark and frightening alley. And now it is the light that I always seek, and not the promises of cursed, buried treasures….

Answer 10

Only if you allow it to.
We all make wrong turns. Some people learn from their wrong turns, while others don't.
Sometimes it is a long road back to the right way.