Life is a mystery.
Perhaps it was designed that way.
The question is not whether the road ahead is certain…
The question is whether you will walk it.
It is called faith.
Simply put, it is believing without seeing.
Believing what, you may ask?
That there is more going on than what first appears.
That life has meaning.
That your journey has purpose.
That the next step matters even when you cannot see where the path eventually leads.
Life remains one of the great mysteries.
Yet many of us spend enormous amounts of energy trying to make it predictable.
Trying to make it safe.
Trying to make it fit neatly into a formula.
Perhaps the better approach is to simply live it.
LIFE IS MORE THAN SURVIVAL.
I have known people who succeeded by every worldly measure.
They built careers.
Accumulated possessions.
Created security.
Established routines.
And yet something was missing.
The necessities of food, shelter, and clothing were in place.
But other parts remained hungry.
The heart.
The soul.
The spirit.
The need for meaning.
The need for wonder.
The need for purpose.
As I wrote in Pearls for the Soul:
“The soul was never designed to live on bread alone.”
— Richie Naggar, Pearls for the Soul
ONE ROAD…
TWO PATHS.
Our minds are wonderful tools.
But they are limited.
There are times when something greater than intellect is required.
A pause.
A moment of reflection.
A willingness to listen.
The poet Robert Frost understood this.
In his famous poem, he described arriving at a fork in the road.
Two paths stretched before him.
Both appeared inviting.
Both appeared possible.
One road was well traveled.
The other less so.
He paused.
He observed.
He considered.
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED.
Most people choose what is familiar.
What is comfortable.
What is proven.
What is popular.
There is nothing inherently wrong with that.
Yet every once in a while, a person feels drawn toward something different.
Something uncertain.
Something unexplored.
Something calling quietly from within.
Frost chose that road.
And years later he reflected that it had made all the difference.
Faith often works this way.
It invites us to move forward before all the answers arrive.
It asks us to trust before certainty appears.
It encourages us to walk before the entire map is visible.
THE NARROW WAY.
The road less traveled is not always the easiest.
It may require courage.
Patience.
Perseverance.
Humility.
It may ask you to leave behind assumptions and expectations.
But those who travel it often discover something remarkable.
The journey itself becomes the reward.
The mystery begins to unfold.
New horizons appear.
New opportunities emerge.
New understandings develop.
As I wrote in God I AM:
“Faith begins where certainty ends.”
— Richie Naggar, God I AM
BE OF GOOD CHEER.
The world has always contained uncertainty.
It always will.
But uncertainty is not the same as defeat.
You were not placed here to be defeated.
You were placed here to participate.
To discover.
To grow.
To learn.
To love.
To contribute.
To become.
The path before you may not be fully visible.
That is alright.
The next step usually is.
Take that step.
Then another.
Then another.
WHAT IF?
What if the mystery is part of the gift?
What if the uncertainty keeps life interesting?
What if faith is not the absence of questions, but the courage to continue asking them?
What if the road less traveled is waiting specifically for you?
May the path you choose answer the mystery within your heart.
May your journey be filled with wonder.
May your faith be stronger than your fears.
And may you always remember…
To be of good cheer.
— Richie
Pearls for the Soul
when you feed the soul, you feed everything.
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