the road less traveled

of late my life path has seems to be much less traveled. the blazes on the trees when they exist have become overgrown and the path is sometimes hardly visible. often it's not. growing up i spent a ton of time in the mountains, finding myself in the walks thru the wilderness. i remember times thinking i was lost, alone, scared but i knew that down was always toward a river or creek, which inevitably leads to somewhere, most often to home. i'm kinda feeling that right now. we're working thru an adoption which is incredible! we've gotten word that there's only one little step left until Ari can come be a part of our family. amazing! a mountain top experience. and yet it's clouded by doubt and fear, the usual i'd guess, first time parenting... and all that. other life stuff rolls in like a storm though. while the mountain tops are amazing and the views are grand indeed, often that's the place where the worst of storms spring up, and in an instant you're whole perspective changes. on the open mountain tops, above the tree lines, you're exposed, the path is often only visible by piles of rocks left by those who've gone before. it's often just a small scar on the land, barely more than a worn patch of grass. it's hard to see in the fog and rain, but it's still there. the fog has rolled in on my days, beams of light radiate all around but few clear enough to make out my next steps. still the path leads forward, every once in a while with little pillars of stone to let me know i'm still on track. God calls us forward, thru for whatever adventures bid us come next. God is the ever present hope in spite of all fear and doubt. he has always been and will be forever. he is my constant. pray for us as we hope to have this adoption soon completed and the joy that will bring to have her be in our family. the sun will soon shine again, and the clouds roll back. i look forward to that day. the road less traveled is a grand adventure, may you're life be spent on it, not always knowing the whole course but always knowing where it leads too. 

much love