This year the children are studying Math, as they always do. It's not exactly a favorite subject in our family, but definitely holds rank with reading and writing as one of the basics. I can't remember which one of our children, to be exact, but one of them was studying Geometry.

You may not know which angle I'm coming from ...I'm not sure myself, but I'll get to the point.

Yes, that's it! My point ...I mean, an angle consists of two rays with a common point.

A ray is simply a point, which then points in a given and precise direction for eternity.

Similarly, in that respect, out lives are like a ray. We are born at a set point in time, and we will travel in one direction.

Now, you may say, "That's simply not true!" I guess, like most things in life, it depends on how you look at it. If you look at how I walk through life, "my" actual path is rather curvy ...and I often feel I'm traveling in all sorts of directions.

But to say our lives are like a "ray", there has to be one direction that we point to ...and that direction becomes our far-reaching reference point. My timely realization is that this is also true of my friend, Ray.