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Journey
by
Aaron Atkinson
I see a road, and on this road there is an elderly man
walking. It’s a long steep and unpleasant journey, but he continues to walk with
his bible in hand. Many people pass, paying him no attention at all, but a few
would stop and say "there’s no way you can make it up there without a car, it’s
just too cold, freezing and there’s no water for days." He looks up, smiles,
points to his bible and responds, "I have all that I need".
So he continues to walk down this long cold road, and as he travels he sees
another man walking the other direction (on the opposite side of the road)
without any shoes. He stops; calls over to the other side and ask, "Why are you
leaving?" The man looks over to him with his eyes full of tears and says, "I
have lost all that is dear to me, and I no longer have anything. We tried to
cross, no one made it, so I turned around." The elderly man ask the young man if
he would walk with him and talk to him about those he had lost, and if he
agreed, he would in return give him his shoes. The young man figured as cold as
it was, and as cold as his feet were, he had nothing to lose. As they walked,
the young man told him all that had happened to him on his journey.
They continued to walk until they came to the place in the road the young man
lost his family. The elderly man continued to walk as the young man stopped and
shouted, "come back we can’t make it without a car!" Well elderly man smiled,
looked back to him, pointed to his bible and said, "We have all that we need."
The elderly man continued on his journey and as he did he would stop people
traveling on the opposite side of the road as asked them to join him. As they
did he would listen to them explain where they were headed and explain and teach
them how they could return. The more he taught them and helped them understand,
made it easier for them to continue to walk with him. As time went on, they
themselves would call someone from the other side of the road to join all of
them as they walked up the cold long mountain on their journey. By this time all
of the people in the front of this group where unclothed and the people in the
back where clothed. For the people in the front of this group had all that they
needed. They stopped to rest one night and when they got up there was a note
from the elderly man saying "my brothers and sisters I love you and I’ll be
waiting for you when you get here."
Remember, we are all on a journey and it is important we learn as much as we can
from our guide(s) as long as they’re here with us. God never intended for any of
us to do this alone. Life is a group effort, and we must do all that we can to
be there for those on the opposite side of the road, because we never know if
life will one day throw us on the other side.
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