A walk can cure many ailments. A physical walk with a friend can be encouraging, helpful, insightful, and fun. A spiritual walk with the Lord can be, and is, and will be, a challenge, troubling, scary, intriguing, and joyous. Whichever, or both, walks that we choose to take each day, shape us a little bit more into the image of God.
Tonight, I had the pleasure of taking a walk with a dear friend. Not only did we walk together around the back roads and alleyways of Upland, but we had the graceful opportunity to have our friend, our High Priest, our elder brother, our Father, and our Creator, walking right along beside us the entire way. We struggled through fears, emotions, and heartache and rejoiced in thanksgiving, praise, and hope.
The walk of life is hard, it's scary, and it's fun. Sometimes we just have to walk a little bit longer before we understand the complete nature of the meaning of the path taken. That's our hope: that we may walk just a little bit longer before our walk comes to an end and we look back on the joys, trials, and triumphs of the walk.
A walk can cure many ailments. We just don't always know how, when, or why those ailments come. At the end of the walk, we'll know that it was all worth it and that our walk has brought glory and honor to the One who walked alongside us the entire way.
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