By Philip A Foster, MA - Life Coach

 

For those who know me, they know the long road I have traveled. I have felt great sorrow and as the book "The Shack" puts it, the great sadness. Sometimes we find ourselves in a place we didn't choose and we cry out to God for help. I know I have done my share of crying out! I have pleaded my case before God to spare me and snatch me from this valley I find myself in. I find myself in a station of life that was not on my road map to success! I have, for the better part of two years been kicking, screaming and scratching my way through the pit I found myself in. Unfortunately, I have to admit that there is only one way out of a valley... you must walk through it! Being the outdoors man I am.. I also know that when hiking you grow weary. I have been in my share of both proverbial and actual valleys. I have grown weary and had to stop to rest. Sometimes you feel like you may never get out of the valley, that the summit of life's success is too far away. Sometimes the journey is too much to bear! The question is, do we decide to find comfort in a place we don't like or do we keep moving. TRUST ME... I KNOW!!!! The journey is hard. My ankles are sore and the blisters of the trip are torturing at times. There is no one that wants out of the valley more than me. I miss those I love that disappeared at the opening of this trip. My only hope is in knowing that God has something for me at the other side. Scripture says "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil." What I am learning is that the valley of the shadow of death is and can be any valley we travel through. Why? because in that journey through life's valley we can and often give up... sit down and die. But God says we shall fear no evil nor shall we fear death. God may not have desired for us to enter the valley... but he does desire for us to make it out. I hold on to that idea each step of the way through my journey out of the valley I am in. Though my body is tired from the trip... and my ankles are bleeding from the blisters... I must take another step... for each step I take is closer to where God wants me to be... I pray I see you on the summit of life's success with me.

 

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