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"The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul." ~ Oscar Wilde
Being true to the individual human person emerging into our life is the beginning of a life filled with courage, rejecting fear and any thought that we cannot be all that God expects of us when inviting us to trust His friendship every step we make to discover the person He expects us to become.
The devious residing in every human person will often conceal the truth for fear of being exposed for all that they prefer to lie hidden beyond the gaze of those parading their sense of being holier than thou.
In our younger days many of us experimented with life's invitation to live with the thought that discovering who we are becoming needs be, we dive in the deep end learning to swim with the current of life pulsating at full throttle encouraging us to face our doubts by engaging with the rest of the human race.
Life's daily experiences can be a brutal reminder that not all that glistens is going to provide us with the satisfaction that we had at first believed would make our choice worth our while. Nevertheless without stepping out onto life's highway we will never know the person we are born to be, even now appealing to our sense of adventure to grasp His hand letting Him be our heartfelt friend, loving us with all His heart's desire. Two lovers entwined, as one.
The road taken is not always going to be filled with rich rewards for there will also be moments when we need to take a refreshing break to reflect on the lessons that our choices are teaching us that we may then choose to turn left, or right at the next fork in the road just lying out of sight beyond that steep hill encouraging us to keep experimenting with life's challenge to better know who we are becoming.
Doubt becomes our valuable and constant companion daily reminding us that no matter which road we take, a thought will emerge reassuring us to press on knowing that the path ahead makes us all that we are becoming by leading us to journey's end.
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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