Getting to know who we are becoming entails living life with the expectation of sometimes making choices that we may later regret. The road of hard knocks is known to impose its bitter lessons on all who elect to embrace life's invitation to find out what is at the end of the rainbow.
In The Wizard of Oz the heroine, Dorothy (Greek: Θεοδώρα, Theodōra transliterated as gift of God) chooses to escape from her boring black, and white existence in Kansas to travel the yellow brick road into a technicolor world filled with bizarre characters she meets on her journey of self discovery. Leaving her comfort zone rewards Dorothy with the growing awareness that her adventures are teaching her how best to cope with the adversities that life sends all, to grow us out of our beliefs that our life can be lived to the fullest when remaining incarcerated in the perceived securities provided by all that we are familiar with.
Scaling Mount Everest is also metaphor for attempting what appears to be very difficult, perhaps even beyond our reach as it appears from the perspective of one familiar with the comforts of ones home. Our Saviour's call to follow Him along His road designed for our specific journey of self discovery, will with persistence invite us to step outside our comfort zone to travel with Him until our journey's completion.
Here lies the dilemma for most people, handing over control of ones life to our inner inspirations, asking us to trust Him to shepherd us through our life. With faith step, by step our trust in Our Saviour's leadership grows us out of our disbelief, sufficiently to keep on trusting in the guidance we are receiving to live our life revealing Our Father's life, alive in ours.
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” ― Thomas Merton
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