The trail, the path, is laden with stones,
that impede our progress.
They are wet and we continue
to slip, slide and sometimes regress
or fall as a result.
The mist ahead keeps us from seeing what is there,
what lies in front.

And,
so, is life.
If we could only know what to expect,
but we don't.
We have to have that faith, which is intrinsic to life,
in order to continue on.

A misstep, will drop us down on the left 3000 ft,
to ultimate fatality, and failure,
while climbing to the right will take us to nothing.

To continue on the path, which is difficult at best,
we must have total faith and trust,
that it will ultimately lead us in a positive way,
in a positive direction to an endpoint,
justifying our faith and trust.

Faith and trust,
not only in ourselves,
but in that Supreme Being,
God,
without Whom,
we can never adequately traverse that path.