Standing in the Map

One of the greatest ideas the "Friends" people ever came up with was to send the cast to "London, baby". This was probably the greatest sitcom vacation since the Bradys went to Hawaii. If you remember, the pagan idol found at a construction site by that nosy little Bobby ended up causing Peter to nearly get bitten by a tarantula and led to Greg going "Yard Sale" on some embarrassingly small surf that was obviously not shot on the famous "North Shore".

Anyway, while the Friends are in London, Monica and Chandler get together, Ross says "Rachel" instead of "Emily" and all the while poor Phoebe is stuck at home pregnant with her brother's children. (She was a surrogate for him and his wife for those of you who "don't watch TV". Whatever.) There are also the great scenes of Joey and Chandler as they try to find their way around London, baby. Chandler, who is a little too cool for himself at this time, but soon to find his character totally neutered by his on-screen romance, and is put off by Joey's unbridled enthusiasm for this new town.

He is also embarrassed by Joey's inability to simply look at a map to get his bearings and decide where to go. To overcome his deficiencies, Joey has devised a method by which he lays the map on the ground in the proper orientation to his surroundings. He then will "get in the map" by literally getting in the map...standing smack-dab on his location at the time. By getting in the map, Joey steps himself into what he knows to be true and right and then determines his direction from there.

In my life now, there are a few things about which I don't know which way to go. Fortunately, I have a map. A map with His word...with His direction.

Now I just have to remember to "get in the map"...and stay there.