Metaphor for thought

So far in your life, you have been following in the footsteps that everyone has taken, when one day there is a fork in the path of sand. You can follow the multitudes of footsteps or the path with just a few. The multitudes of footsteps go across smooth flat earth. The right path has rocky sand with sharp stones and hills in the distance. You always could just turn and make a brand new path.
Where will you go? What path will you follow?

In any of these paths, Jesus is with us as He always is.

RESULTS:
Our human nature tells us to take the left path, the smooth earth and many footsteps tell us it is safe. This path also takes us twice as long to get to the end because half of the time we don't realize who we are with or where we are going.

The right path is much harder. We must face all of the challenges before us but we see others who have done it before. It gives us strength and courage to go on.

We, of course, could always make a new path. This is much harder but very rewarding. This path allows us not to follow Jesus, but walk beside him. Fighting to make new footsteps so one day, maybe some one else, can get just a little bit farther.

♥Kay♥