Around the bottom up to the top are at least 2 paths that we can choose. One is a gentle winding pathway never steep, often sandy and wide. It is an invitation to slow down, relax, get comfortable, not push ourselves too hard. It is a siren song to be ignored, a temptation to stray from our deeper desires to reach the pinnacle that summons us up and makes us stronger, shows us who we really are.
A second path is a narrow and steeper climb. It is wrought with rocks. It calls to all who prepare with living water and commit to diligent training. When we choose these paths and while more narrow and steeper to climb, they move us closer to our ultimate goal for our lives.
The illusion of the gentle path is that we can do it alone, with noone's help but those we choose. The fact of the steeper climb is that we have to have others help to make it, and we must help others too. For before the journey's through and we come off conquerer, first having placed our desires to be comfortable into perspective, we will then know that many hands lifted us on our journey and we have earned a place at the top with those who also struggled and sought to find the way.
Some individuals will reach the peak quickly and move on. Others of the noble birthright will wait just to help those of us less capable along. Most of us will wander and struggle, stop and wonder. But in the end through God's grace alone, we will all know that we can be made equal to the challenge and climbs before us. But only after believing in and trusting in other's hands, God's hands. That He will lift, lead and guide us to His Throne, to His Home.
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