HOW do you get there from here?

How Will You Get There    

From Here?  

“You can’t get there from here!”  Oh really?  Isn’t the real question, “HOW will you get there from here?”  Something there is in us which finds a way.  That was the one memorable line from Jurassic Park—“nature finds a way.”  So do we.  But we have to be willing to have eyes to see new ways.  All too often it is easy to resign ourselves to the old euphemism—“You can’t get there from here.”  

 Then I discovered this amazing combination of images along my daily walk.  The familiar path. The obvious bridge across the creek.  But now, after a massive oak fell across the path on the other side of the bridge—there’s a cut through of a section to clear the way.  Trust me, without the section cut out, you would have to really climb to pass. 

It occurred to me that the picture represents the three ways we try to walk through life.  The first is to follow the path in front of us--are we willing to seek other paths?  The second is to cross bridges--are we willing to help build bridges between others and our future?  How about cutting our way through?  Removing obstacles? Sometimes necessary, and also hazardous.  Always it entails a combination of the above if we want to get there from here. 

There is this one glaring exception from Robert Frost. We may think we know where we are trying to go.  We may even struggle to find new paths, build bridges and even cut our way through to where we think we wish to go.  But!  in the end discover a whole new destination.  Remember Frost's famous lines for the walker? 

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.