It started off as any
other day. Get up, nibble at breakfast, and take Rylie out for a nice
walk. Getting bored with my usual route I decide to undertake a new
path, on the opposite side of the greenbelt. When i see a dirt path
leading along side the trail, i decide that would be a fun addition,
down just a ways and back. When about a mile down and a few bridges and
several twists and turns later it leads back up to what is now a gravel
path, I assume to be the green belt in the same direction I had begun.
It is beautiful, calm and quiet. everything I want on a morning walk. I
get lost in the recesses of my mind...when i suddenly realize I no
longer hear the water. As I look around I see there are no houses, no
street paths, no people...just tall trees and a dirt path. Rylie is
enjoying hims self and it is a pretty path so i continue a ways down...I
suddenly hear water again. A small stream to the left and a LAKE to the
right!? Where the hell am I? no signs of human life! Another mile down
the path i cross a bridge, there are houses on the other side of the
lake, each with a personal dock and boat. I must be day dreaming! this
is absurd. I suddenly get the bright idea to check my pedometer-10
miles! and I don't have any clue where i am, I try to pull up my gps
locater but it is stuck on "searching" I finally decide to turn around
and head back, when I start to pass the house free portion of the lake i
get my location. Eagle Island State park! Really?!?! I could have sworn
I was walking towards Boise! I must have zigged when i should have
zagged as Angie puts it :) When I finally find my way back I see that I
AM now on the green belt path, and the short turn off i took that ran
alongside the green belt about 6feet apart. separated only by giant
trees, turns back on it's self. Heading in the very OPPOSITE direction I
had set out on.
One small step, for just a minute, a simple indulgent minute. This was how it started, and it was incredible, everything i could have wanted...at least that is what I thought at first. then I realized as "fun" as it may seem. I was lost!! I started thinking about all of the things in my life that began with a "this is fun, and it's not too bad" comment. Those small indulgent, seemingly innocent moments, have taken me miles in the wrong direction. even when it seemed as though I could still see the "path" and it was parallel to where I wanted to be, I had actually doubled back and lost my way. While I am now on my way back, I am still miles away from being "safely home". I know with my Heavenly Fathers help, and keeping my eyes wide open while making the effort to purposefully stay on the main path, I will end up right where I am supposed to be :)
First person in miles!!! Happy day :) No idea where he came from, or where he is going, but I decided to turn around and follow them back to civilization...
One small step, for just a minute, a simple indulgent minute. This was how it started, and it was incredible, everything i could have wanted...at least that is what I thought at first. then I realized as "fun" as it may seem. I was lost!! I started thinking about all of the things in my life that began with a "this is fun, and it's not too bad" comment. Those small indulgent, seemingly innocent moments, have taken me miles in the wrong direction. even when it seemed as though I could still see the "path" and it was parallel to where I wanted to be, I had actually doubled back and lost my way. While I am now on my way back, I am still miles away from being "safely home". I know with my Heavenly Fathers help, and keeping my eyes wide open while making the effort to purposefully stay on the main path, I will end up right where I am supposed to be :)
First person in miles!!! Happy day :) No idea where he came from, or where he is going, but I decided to turn around and follow them back to civilization...
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