The longest road

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Throughout our lives we will be walking many paths, travel many roads…

Some of those pathways turn out to be diversions when time moves on giving us the chance to look back upon them. And while at the time some were interesting diversions, some of them may have been simple detours, or have had a more distracting quality to them. In effect redirecting the way to our goals; or even leading us to a new and different goal altogether.

Other avenues turn out to be wide and easy to traverse, bringing us to our chosen destination in no time at all.

Most of the roads we travel are somewhere in between. They can be long and winding, providing us with scenic views of whatever is around us, bringing us to interesting places to stay over. They can also be ‘cliffhangers’ in the most literal sense of the word; where one side of the road is a sheer wall going up, and the other side is a ravine of which you cannot see the bottom. Those roads seem like a scary balancing act of which we fail to see why people would want to go there ~ and yet we may encounter a fair bit of traffic on a road like that…
Some roads are shorter than we expected them to be; or narrower ~ more like alleys ~ perhaps making us uncertain where they come out, or what we may find a the end of them…

Yet it seems that the longest road we may explore is the road inside.
That path that permits us to know more about ourselves; to get to know ourselves better and better. To discover what we are all about. Not from the perspective of what we have been told, but more based upon who we truly are at the very core of our being. It is a road that will show us vistas of unbelievable beauty. It will guide us to places we are invited to explore ~ coming to recognize the grace and elegance of them as well as the darker corners and closets that are also there.
And the further we travel that road, the more light there seems to be on it and the easier it becomes to move forward. With everything we come to know and understand about ourselves, our journey becomes more smooth. And after a while we start encountering less detours, less deviations, and fewer and fewer obstacles…

It makes that longest road inside a truly personal path to (spiritual) growth.
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