Fellow Traveler,

As we begin to travel down unknown roads, we must not dictate where we will and will not go. For God may have us walk down difficult roads, unknown roads, roads with no end in sight. But I assure you that it is on these lonely roads where we will at last meet Jesus face to face.

If we choose to walk only where others have gone before, the safe and easy well-worn path; we may be able to set an easier pace, and there will be more company along the way. However, I assure you; in the safety of the well-worn path, there will be fewer glimpses of Jesus.

It is on the narrow road, the one less traveled, where boulders seem to block our path and the loneliness threatens to suffocate that we will at last come to need Jesus. It is there that we will learn to cry out for Him because there is no other by our side.

There beside that lonely road, Jesus himself will sit down beside us, feed us and comfort us. It is there when we are all alone and do not know which direction to turn that Jesus will raise us to our feet, square our shoulders and remind us that;

Whoever claims they are His, must walk as Jesus did. (I John 2:6)

Down roads where few have traveled,
        Looking for those who do not yet know the way,
              Listening for the voice of the Father and
                     Walking steadily in the shadow of His Word.

Still walking with Jesus,

Judy Howard June, 1999