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Along Life’s Way
The Journey Forward
By Lois E. Wilson
The minute we are born, we begin our life journey. At first the goals
are basic: learning to feed ourselves, learning to crawl, stand up,
walk, and talk are some accomplished in the early months and years.
As we mature, the goals become more difficult, important, and personal.
You develop new goals of education, career-development, family
pursuits, and later retirement. At any stage of your journey there are
experiences and things to learn.
Mark Twain observed, “We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.”
Good purposes lead us along roads of good action. If we become
discouraged, the risk is to lose direction. Leonardo Da Vinci wrote,
“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He
who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
One who has no established goals is less likely to achieve success.
Without a personal map, one can easily lose direction and flounder.
Ecclesiasticus 7:36 “Whatever thou takest in hand, remember the end,
and thou shalt never do amiss.” Carl Sandburg asked, “What is there
more of in the world than anything else? Ends.”
On your journey, there are end points at times. When you reach them,
there are horizons which entice you to continue and establish new goals
for your life.
As we proceed along our chosen roads, we should take care to never
become focused solely on the rear-view mirror. That could cause
disastrous results. One cannot live in the past. We are not time
travelers.
However, one should study the past; it has lessons for us. We only move
forward in life if we look forward to what opportunities and interests
lie ahead; we are a work in progress.
On our life journey, we do not need to travel alone. As Paul reminded
us in Philippians 3:13-14 (NRSV) “Beloved, I do not consider that I
have made it on my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies
behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the
goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Shakespeare took an ancient proverb as the title of one of his plays and penned this thought: “All’s well that ends well.”
It has been said that each one of us is the architect of our own life.
With God’s guidance along the chosen journey, establish goals. Design
your life to end well.
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