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August 08, 2004
The Road I choose
Today seemed like a long day! I ended up working late, then I cycled home. By then it was already 8:30pm. Two hours later as I sat down to write this blog, I was really tired! I did have the fastest time I’ve ever had on this same route, and it feels like I had a great workout.
When I am cycling, I have to pick a route. There is not a right or wrong in choosing a route but some routes take longer than others. If I choose to go one way, I get a certain kind of workout, maybe with more hills or longer distance. The same is true spiritually in our lives. There are many roads we can take, and we always have choices to make. No matter which road we take life has a way of working out. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. It may not work out the way we thought it would though. Every action has a reaction and our thoughts and motives are creating something. Then as we go down that road, different choices present themselves. And then we have to make further choices.
So, one way of looking at it is that we can determine where we want to be, or who we want to be, and choose the path that will most likely get us there. One thing I’ve noticed though, is that many of us want to walk on different paths at the same time. It doesn’t work too well. Imagine what would happen if I tried to cycle down two roads at once. I’d crash in the middle. Spiritually we crash too, because we cannot easily be in two different states of being at once. So part of choosing the path we want to go down is deciding who we really are. Then the road kind of finds us.
Posted by carl1236 at August 8, 2004 10:57 PM