The Valley

You may not realize it, but your life is like a journey across the country.  There are mountains, plains, rivers, and obstacles to cross.

Depending on how your day went, you could experience all these things in a 24 hours period.

It is amazing to me that on this journey, how the view changes.

It’s like being in a valley, climbing a small hill, and seeing from the top of the hill, to the next peak.

It’s great to be at the top, at the peak, having achieved some thing.  And when you look forward from this vantage point at the next peak, you know to get there, you have to go through another valley.

You will have to go down, sometimes way down, to get back up even higher than you were before.

There are no smooth plains unless you don’t want change.  Then everything looks like Saskatchewan.

However, if you want to reach your fullest potential, there are going to be peaks, valleys, rivers to cross, forests to travel through.

Challenges on the path, and all of those are not only good for you, they are necessary for you to reach the heights you know you can reach.

The valley is just as important as the peak.  You may not see it at the time, but it’s true.