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The Lonely Path

Robbie Titchener

 

“if our journeys are always unique then each of our nights of prayer and darkness of faith are also unique. St John of the Cross says, ‘God carries each person along a different road so that you will scarcely find two people following the same route in even half of their journey to God. Each person is unique and God is infinitely varied.' While the stories of others can be encouraging, they will never be the same as ours.” Alan Jamieson, Called Again p80.

 

Each journey begins

  with a single step

In the beginning

my single step

was cluttered

  hesitant

  lost in a thousand other steps

My early journey

was well-worn

  well-trodden

not a blade of grass

left standing

on this barren, gravel road

Sometimes

I would walk with friends

- their path was my path

  aren't we all going the same way?

Sometimes

I would take another's path

- confusing their broad road with my narrow path

  pointing in the same direction

But as the paths decrease

as the numbers decline

I learn the certainty of my own path

Travelling away from the masses

  travelling through creeks and gullies

  journeying by day and night

  the long, slow curve of the mountain slope

Sometimes

I cross another's path

Sometimes

theirs travels alongside

- within talking distance

  within distant sight

I travel my own path

  though it is the way less travelled

I travel my own path

  though I know not where it leads

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