One of the biggest mysteries everyone is faced with is the future. The future is without a doubt different for everyone. Everyone will have their own future, their own story, and at the end... Their own past and the travels they took. But having said all that, the future is also the same for every single one of us. It can only be as good as we make it. I look at it as the future being a view, and the past being the journey we took to see that view. Whatever look out point or scenic rest stop you choose to to take in that view is totally up to you. Just today I walked across the street to take this picture.
My journey was crossing a busy street, walking through a field of sticker bushes, and climbing a fence. While it may not seem like much of a physical effort, I can say pretty positively, there would still be some people afraid or too lazy to take that journey. Many people expect to have the future handed to them, they wish they could just see the future without taking the journey to get there, or they just plain don't have what it takes to break free from their comfort zone. Whatever the obstacle, people often trust in their own understanding which causes fear, rather than trusting in a destiny mapped out by God which tests faith. Either way the view of the future is not the most important piece to the puzzle of life... It's the journey we take to get there. Every busy road we cross tests our mind, every sticker bush we run into tests out will power, and every fence we climb only tests our determination.
I believe there is nothing that cannot be achieved when you set your mind to it. If you have the heart to fight, the mind to focus, and the wisdom to see past the obstacles.... Then the future is truly yours.
Never let the fear of not knowing the future stop you from chasing or loving what you have been given. Because the journey is where you come to appreciate your final view.
By Dallin Johnson
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