On the Road to Nowhere

I was running as fast as I could to a place where I believed was rest from every struggle. I ran against myself to a hollow in the darkness. It was for peace I waged a war against a foe I knew little of. But little I knew that my foe was peace. Though I leapt effortlessly over hurdles of perversion and insanity, I found the fabric of my person being altered beyond the design of my choice. There was a demon in the sphere of thought I occupied and a vicious beast that lurked in hunger on the other side of the planet in my mind.

I called to them who professed Paradise in street corners and my call was steered towards profanity in their ears. The help I sought was soon curdling into a storm of ravaging affliction. So I ran before me into a land I conceived within me and abode on high upon the towers of virtue. And then I was alone again. My only foe thereafter would be the very alliance that was at my defense since my conception. I could not reason without a doubt as to why my unrelenting assailant was the very person who speaks even at this moment. The pursuit was unhindered and the laws governing war and peace had no effect in such an occasion.

Suddenly, peeling through a region of space whose dimensions were unrestricted to the sense of touch, was a shimmer of Light which tore the walls of darkness down as when a Lion devours its prey. I stood in all my strength to behold the might that was impressed upon me, but I was weakened to the strongest knee of reasoning I took pride in. I hoped for a word either of judgment or consolation but none came. Silence was the loudest word spoken and it was silence that convicted me of my infamy.

My weakness was no longer enshrouded by the pride that made me rejoice in the bloodshed I spurred behind the veils of righteousness. I looked upon my wickedness and knew that I was defenseless against the jaws of death. The Light was of life, love and peace, three of whom I longed to have as company but failed to acquire in my endeavors. As I knelt with my head bowed to the ground I often cursed, I heard a fearsome but consoling roar that caused my trembling to set the whole of me upon the ground. I lay prostrate before the Light as He spoke in familiarly mysterious words. He said, "I AM who I AM!

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life! I am and there is none like unto Me."

He said, "I am Jesus and I am he who gives eternal life.

"You cannot save yourself from death but it is I who saves those who call on Me.

"Turn and follow Me."

At that moment, I resorted to incline my ear to the whisper of humility and so I did. That, which I conveniently rejected, was the very solution to my every problem. He was the only answer I needed and the only answer there is for everyone. Today if you hear his voice calling, do not turn a deaf ear and shrug the conviction under the carpet of false-self. Do not breed insanity by ignoring the call of the heart. It was by blood He sought to purchase you from the clutches of death and it is through His blood today we can be certain that there will be an eternity we will rejoice in and not gnash our teeth in regrets for a past that is beyond repair.

It's up to you to choose between somewhere and nowhere, but somewhere is a lot harder to arrive at than going nowhere when all we think about is now.