The Road Ahead

Posted on June 17, 2007
Filed Under Embrace Your Highest Path and Purpose, How To Develop Your Intuition, Spiritual Development |

No doubt we sometimes think it would be nice to have a complete road map of our highest path and purpose for this lifetime handed to us at birth. Preferably with the really important stuff noticeably highlighted, so that there’s no way we could make a wrong turn.

Traveling our path, however, is more like driving in the middle of the night on a dark road. You can clearly see the next fifty feet or so in front of you. But beyond that, the road ahead is a mystery. We worry about the unknown potholes and detours that may lurk ahead. We are concerned that we might get tripped up or lost in all that darkenss. But as we travel, we realize that the path immediately in front of us remains reliably illuminated, no matter how fast or far we go. We have plenty of time to deal with the forks in the road, read the signs along the highway, and find our way. If we get truly scared, we can always slow down. We can even pull over. Sooner or later, though, we have to get back on the road. And the same fifty feet directly in front of us will still be in the light.

We think we’d like a more complete picture. Where will we be in ten miles? Or twenty? But it truly serves us to focus on those next fifty feet of the road of life - the parts that are illuminated and visible. These are the decisions that we can make, right now. We cannot possibly know exactly what this road will look like in five or six miles. If we knew every difficulty, every bump in the road before we even started our journey, we might never get moving at all! One thing is for sure: the same upcoming fifty feet of roadway remain illuminated at all times. We are never left completely in the dark. We always have enough information to make the decisions at hand.

Don’t worry too much about having the detailed, highlighted road map of your path and purpose completely figured out. Concentrate on what is visible, right in front of you. You will get exactly where you need to go, fifty feet at a time.

Blessings,
Andrea