Stay on the Path
On vacation I hiked a pass overlooking the Loyalsock Creek in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It was a difficult incline that I estimate in many places to have been sixty degrees. There was a stern warning at the head of the trail that you should not stray from the path. As I climbed, I saw why. In some places, to stray from the path was to take a tumble over a cliff, hundreds of feet down to a rocky, cold water stop at the foot of the hill.
When we can see the danger we are careful. But the path of our souls is not so easy to navigate.