The road ahead... Unknown. My steps are slow... Uncertain. What lies ahead... The future. Running down the road takes faith. Fear not. Embrace the vistas along the way. Don't rest too long in one spot.
The Road
The road ahead... Unknown. My steps are slow... Uncertain. What lies ahead... The future. Running down the road takes faith. Fear not. Embrace the vistas along the way. Don't rest too long in one spot.
Well this one speaks to me today
There’s so many unknowns and it’s the kind of unknown that asks “how bad will it actually get?”
Trying to have hope is challenging but humans are great at being distracted.
I like your poem “The Road”. It really is important to enjoy the journey of life…we only get to do it once.
I liked the phrase “Don’t rest too long in one spot.” Martine Leavitt wrote:
Our beloved prophet, President Russell M. Nelson…has taught: “Even though our Creator endowed us with this incredible power [the ability of the body to heal from injury or illness], He consigned a counterbalancing gift to our bodies. It is the blessing of aging, with visible reminders that we are mortal beings destined one day to leave this ‘frail existence.’”
He seems to be saying that our aging bodies should be reminders that our time may be short on the earth, and so we should be about finishing our work, not stopping our work. Nephi, Jacob, Enos, and Mormon, when they began to be old, set about passing on the responsibility of the records to make sure all was in order before they passed into the next life. What a blessing to know that our lives are meant to be useful and full in our elder years.
I’ve decided that aging gracefully will mean, to me at least, to age with the grace of my Savior, Jesus Christ. He will ease the way when it needs to be eased and give me strength to carry forward. I will continue to pray for determination to walk the covenant path and to do it in style—even if it’s with a cane.
(see https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2020/06/on-the-covenant-path-with-a-cane?lang=eng)
I will also pray for the determination to walk the covenant path in style, and to embrace mortality, even with a cane! Thanks, Dan.