Along the Way

As we all travel along many paths to reach destinations in our lives,

It is not enough just to arrive at the end of the journey.  For when we

reach the place of our deliverance, how then could we unlock its gate if we have not fashioned keys from experiences gathered along the way?

A man fills his mind with the desire to drink from a pool of water at the edge of a beautiful orchard.  He must know that the fruit born of the tree offers a more satisfying nectar than that of which he seeks. If he passes blindly through the orchard he only quenches his body’s thirst, leaving his mind barren of the orchard’s offering, and his heart empty of it’s beauty.