A Lonely Path
Am I seeing myself?
I walk a lonely path, winding up a mountain in solitude. I company with you, Lord, more and more as the way goes higher and higher. There is both joy and sorrow in this way you had taken me.
Sometimes, rounding a switchback, I see another path across a chasm. A lone figure, walking stick and cloak, going up and up.
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Is it a neighbor, on another lonely path, upwards and upwards? Are we fellows without being together?
Am I seeing myself, later?
Let me live as if I have chosen your will, Lord, for that is what I have done.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I live as if I have chosen this life?
Reading:
“Solitude is not absence of people but the moment when my soul is free to speak to me and help me decide what is worth doing.” — Henri J. M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude
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“The path is the goal.” — Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi
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“Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” — — Psalm 37:5 (KJV)
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