You seek the top of the mountain. You’ve felt this longing for years.
There is a trail that leads to the top, but the path is long and narrow, it is perilous and often very hard.
You yearn for easy transport, for the helicopter to take you directly to the peak.
You search for the silver bullet, the magic formula, the push-button solution that will wipe your old life away and replace it with something far removed… something utterly transformed.
But in your heart you know the truth:
The fulfillment you seek comes not from tricks, hacks, or shortcuts, but from taking one step after the other until you stand there, at last, on the roof of the world.
The fulfillment you seek comes from becoming the man or woman who climbs, the one who’s trodden the path, climbed the mountain.
So, do not ask for the helicopter. Do not ask to be taken out of your self.
Live your life, instead, in such a way that your mind is transformed, so that the thought of traveling the path that fill other men with dread, fills you with soulful excitement.
Live your life in such a way that the utterly spent exhaustion of childhood comes back to you and you feel like a vibrant 12 year old again.
Live your life in such a way that all traces of action-crippling ambivalence are seared away, that you may climb the mountain with joy.
The blinding thicket, the burning wind and lactic burn will never go away. It’s all still there.
Only now they do not stop you, for you have chosen to be dauntless.
And what would seem arduous and unbearable to others who are not lifted from within, as you are, seems instead to you a privilege, an honor, and the greatest of adventures. Because you are filled with hope, you are driven with honor.
Be the man who waits . . . or be the the man who climbs to meet the Sage on the mountain, the Master.
There is one who already showed you the way.
The choice is yours.
Happy Easter.
Doc, we’ll composed and inspirational. I’m a hope’aholic’ and this message hit home in more than one arena. It also reminds me of John C Maxwell and his book Failing Forward.
Happy Easter and I hope you enjoyed some chocolate covered bacon and lots of eggs.
Lovely picture!
Thanks Doc
Fulfilling our dreams and His dreams for us at the same time. Maturity