Opportunities

It’s a strange feeling being led to something, to finally feel you are definitely on the right track and that paths are being cleared for you. The gates are coming down, the weeds once concealing the way for so many years are being knocked away and you are finally on the move. Yet it is frightening. Surely being outside the gates is safer, being off the path and unnoticed means no failure . . . for there you have failed already, all that’s left there is comfortable despair. Not much is expected of you. Once successful, or on the road to success, a man can finally be in the great danger of true disappointment. A newly released prisoner, upon reentering the real world, may surely have a momentary urge to run back to the safety of his cell. So many years and so many excuses now forever to be left behind. But oh, glory to God, what an opportunity!