The word clue in its modern sense of giving guidance or direction in solving a problem comes from the myth of the Minotaur in the Labyrinth. Clue originally meant a ball of thread, and when the Hero Theseus went to confront the Minotaur in the Labyrinth, he was given a ball of thread, or a clue, to help him find his way back out of the labyrinth. Theseus was lost and blind in the dark depths of the labyrinth, but he was able to find his way out not by sight but by feeling for and holding onto and following after the clue, or the ball of thread. We are all going through labyrinths of our own. We often have to make our way the best we can and we must rely on blind faith to get us through it. But even in the midst of the most suffocating mists of darkness, even when we are so blind that we can’t see our own hand in front of our face, that does not mean that we are clueless. We still have a ball of thread that we can follow that will lead us back to our Heavenly Father, even if we are too blind to see the way. “My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou wakest, it shall talk with thee.” (Proverbs 6:20-22). Sometimes that string leading back Home is pulled taut and the way before us is plain and clear. Sometimes its quite lax and we may wander down false alleys and dead ends. But as long as we hold onto that string, as long as we keep living the gospel and obeying the commandments, even when we are blind, even when they don’t make any sense to us, then even if we make detours or backtracks we will still not be entirely lost. We may be blind, but we won’t be clueless.
