Roads...

For some of us, the roads that lead us forward in life are safe, soft, picturesque, narrow and quite non-threatening. We travel this road with confidence, believing that not much will change and we are quite comfortable with that. We can view the scenery well without having to venture anywhere off the road as the scenery is close up and we don't have to move much to the left or right. It's all right there, not too far away. Easy, peasy....safe.

Others of us have huge roads of life, big 'four laners', with twists and turns, ups and downs, with a great many obstacles darting out at every intersection and we're never really sure where it will take us....but we get on it and go. We go hard and fast with nothing to stop us. We see great amounts of scenery on either side as well as up ahead as far as the horizon. There is a great vastness to our view. It's exciting, thrilling and breath-taking. We have a few accidents because of our recklessness but we seem to recover and get back on that road and go. It's a hard road...a road of unknowns and setbacks. But it's the road we have chosen...so we continue on, fast and hard.

I wonder, when we finish this road of life and look back over it in the rear-view mirror, whether we will be able to say we traveled the road well. Will we be able to say, that even with setbacks and accidents on that "four-laner", we were able to get back on that road and go.

Or maybe we'll be saying that we didn't see much or even do much, but at least we were safe and comfortable. No mishaps on that sweet country road.

I think it's a question that all of us will ask one day.

I guess my thought is that if I have traveled either of these two roads and be able to say that God led me on which ever one I traveled, then I have traveled well.

Just some thoughts I had today......

Enjoy the journey.....we have only one.