The straight dirt road...a third option
This blog based on a myspace blog I have recently discovered.
The comparison of two roads. The two roads of life one can say, led me to think if there is a third road description. I mention this because in the "myspace" blog, the author wrote about the easy road and the rough road. How the easy road is paved with many bus stops, where everyone has a GPS device, and not afraid of a little white lie to get to where one is going. And yet the rough road has no bus stops at all, a very narrow windy dirt path, with the traveller longing for at least one bus stop.
These two descriptions makes life seem rather pointless, a misery. A life where it is wrong to get from point A to point B, or at least a life dreading the hardships to achieve the final goal. This creating a duality between the haves and have nots. Implying that only the haves can achieve and enjoy an easier way of life. Leaving everyone else (the have nots) to some how travel in hardship, with no guidance at all.
What if the road for a happy life is a straight and narrow dirt road, filled with no or very little distractions. A road where we as humans can only see one or two steps ahead of us. A road that makes it impossible to get lost as it only goes in one direction. And if we do get a little scared as to were we're heading, it is not because of an unexpected turn or twist rather it is because in our own finite understanding of our current life, we are not able to see our next step. In other wards the lantern we're carrying has gone out. When this happens the path is still set for us to keep following. But we think the path has branched out for the simple reason we can not see our next step ahead of us, our vision has gone dark...we are staring into the darkness of the future instead of focusing on the here and now. So what are we to do? Were to have faith, that each step we take is being guided by Jesus Christ himself. That even if we can not see were our feet are going we can have confidence in knowing that Jesus has our steps not only planned but well grounded on the right path (if we decided to follow in faith). That Jesus is the light unto our feet. And to try navigating the path on just our own independent nature, we are lost on a straight path because we are second guessing the validity of each step we take.
Life is a straight and narrow road filled with hills, mountains, plains and valley's. The uncertainty we experience is how we really never know what lies in the future, as we need to focus on today in order to reach the end, successfully and happy. And this is a rather interesting third road description, a third road for one to choose. A road I am sure I will spend more time exploring as the day progress.
