The Paths of Life

Life.
Faith.
Childhood.
Education.
Marriage.
Parenthood.
Career.
Death.

These aspects and experiences have three things in common...

1) They all involve people
2) They all are challenging
3) They all provide various paths in the journey

Over the span of my life, and especially in the last 5 years (of marriage and parenthood), I have truly come to understand the importance of paths. From a daily walk, to which lane of the freeway you drive on, selecting a path is important to the final goal.

As we move through life, we select paths that might look enticing but turn out to have a drop off into the abyss. Other times, we might see a path that seem rocky, unstable, painful but after selecting it and journeying on this path for a bit, we see that it transforms into a beautiful environment. Another time we might be required to find a detour from our path. This detour may seem like it is detracting from the journey, but instead it may be making the destination that much more desireable.

As we embark on a journey we often feel the need to be prepared for anything, so we pack and we plan and we search for the easiest path. However, we tend to forget that this journey, life, is not meant to be easy, painless, without detours or without discomfort. We should plan, yes, but we should also be adaptable to what the varying paths have in store for us.

Life.
Faith.
Childhood.
Education.
Marriage.
Parenthood.
Career.
Death.

Each with its own labyrinth of paths and goals, with its own joys, pains, detours and delays.

This blog is a rest stop in my journey, a place to recover, recharge and reevaluate the paths I have selected.