WHEN

To have a vision and be encourage change will come can give so much strength. It does truly make the trip far more enduring.

What will haunt and nag at the heart is when you have to deal with the uncertainty of not knowing when the journey ends. Or where you’ll be when it does.

Not every moment in life has those turns. Some truly do grant us the sight of our destination.

Those are far more encouraging. You just be faithful and you will reach your goal. It will always be the focus of hope and a joy to know it will end.

But I think those are more the rare occasion than the norm. The times are more often gear towards what isn’t known.

This is the way of faith. It isn’t always they way we want, but it is part of the journey. And we can’t reach a point it stops.

But the joy comes when one hurdle is overcome. When we pass some barrier that was so hard to defeat.

This is the part of life with a spiritual joy that truly comes from the Lord. It can warm in the winter of questions.

For it is the race that everyone wins. Providing one finishes. And some sadly don’t. They will abandon the walk.

Oh there are all kinds of reasons. Fear and fatigue. But it is failure that truly does kill the most.

For that is when we just give up. Any visions end, all the happiness dies. What remains is indifference.

You just stop caring. And that is when we reach that wilderness. The area where nothing really grows.

Except that you lose any sense of caring. Just no hope or dreams. This never helps with the trip.

And for those who stop and don’t keep walking the days will grow so cold. They will never find the warmth they once had.

All that is sadness. Times of a when that only gets worse. For when one stops trusting the Lord it never helps.

And we all can hopefully learn from the trip.