I walked alone
Lost in the night
Or so I thought
The waves towered
My belongings lost
Or so I thought
But I didn’t think
That my loneliness showed I needed to reach out
That the darkness outside
Showed how much I needed light within
And I didn’t think that the fierce waves
Would force me to learn to swim
That my lost possessions
Would make me realise what really matters
I walk in the night
No longer alone
I sail the seas
No longer weighed down
Empires rise and fall
Philosophies become vogue and then outdated
People are venerated and then forgotten
Monuments are built and then fall
Inventions are made and then become obsolete
Traditions instituted and then rejected
Wealth accumulated and then distributed
Power gained and then lost
Years will eventually pass
Ages come to a culmination
Time brings all things to an end
Only You God span it all
They are the melody of our everyday
The words, the laughter
Dancing on their tongues
Like the notes from a piper
Shimmering through the air
They are the prism to our rays of light
Turning the mundane
Into a myriad of colour
They expand our spectrum of sight
So we see so much more of the world
They break our box of mirrors
So we can see the world again
When we are blinded by situations
They give us true perspective
Remind us who we are
Without them
We are just surviving
Only with them
Are we truly living
It is tempting to take the easy path when our body is screaming at us to give in, when our minds beg us to procrastinate. Doing the rught thing can seem painful at first but it always pays off in the end.
The narrow path is a hard path
It is battered by the coldest winds
And covered by the thickest fog
It offers no mercy to the lonely traveller
It is a walk of complete isolation
Its gradient is unforgiving
And its stones are as sharp as broken glass
To walk this path seems like madness
It winds through the harshest terrain
Its final destination hidden from view
There is no way to know where it leads
It offers nothing to attract you
But perhaps the effort is dwarfed by the prize
Perhaps the pain makes the joy all the sweeter
Perhaps first impressions don’t tell the whole story
Who is brave enough to walk this road?
Because I tell you at the end of it is eternal life
“But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matthew 7:14 (NIV)
