Carefully consider the path for your feet, and all your ways will be established.
The house I grew up in had a narrow sidewalk that went around the entire house. As a child, I often tried to go around the entire house without stepping off that little path. I could usually do it in spring when everything was new.
Often, as summer wore on, not only did the weather get warmer, plants grew; and reaching my goal of completing a trip around the house without stepping off the path became more difficult. I stumbled across the tree above the other day.
When I saw it, I was taken back to that little sidewalk around the house. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, as the year wore on, my trip became harder. Without realizing it, I began leaning slightly to get around the bush. Eventually, every year, it grew to the point that I had to step off the sidewalk to get around it.
Some trips I’d give up completely. Mad and dejected that I couldn’t make it. Other times, I’d go back, start over, and push my way through the bush without leaving the sidewalk.
After I passed the bush above, I wondered why it never even occurred to me to push my way through it. I simply stepped off and walked around it. I ended up walking in the grass for a while without being aware of it. How often do we do that? How many times do you suddenly find yourself off-path without being aware of it? How often do you find yourself off-course feeling like giving up?
If you think you’ve messed up a diet, if you think you’ve blown your training regimen, if you think you’ve deserted your faith to the point of no return please realize you haven’t. It is never too late to get back where you need to be. Proverbs says to carefully consider the path and our ways will be…?
Established.
Don’t let the unimportant things distract you from life.
This article was first published on August 20, 2015 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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