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I was walking back from this chapel under the stars one night, a couple of years ago. I happened to look down and God placed a story on my heart. It goes like this:
There was a girl that was walking along a road bare foot. After traveling for a while, she realized that she had drifted to the edge of the road, where the brush and roots intertwined with the cement. She contemplated with herself on which side to keep walking on--the gravel of the road or the grassy trail beside it. Each had it pros and cons. The gravel made her walk faster, but the pebbles in it hurt her feet and made them callused and rough. The grassy trail, on the other hand, was a soft cushion under her tired feet, but it also would hurt her with the tiny thorns that lay in it. After debating, she finally decided to take the grassy trail.
You see, God is the grassy trail. He will be there for you and to soften your walk of life. The thorns intertwined are merely lessons taught by Him, not to harm us, but to keep us trusting in him that there will be relief with each passing step. When we wander away from God and onto the gravel, our troubles increase. Every step we take without God and onto the gravel will cause us pain and leave our hearts hard and blistered. It is when we travel back to the grassy trail that we realize that God wants us to walk with Him and trust Him completely.
It took a long time to realize all that God had for me if my outward desire to be close to Him matched my inside desire. It still is hard to be on God’s time, but I am reassured by His love and grace that He is mine and I am His. I just need to walk in the grass.
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