Taking the right path and following the right direction in our lives and staying on the right path.

I will try to shed some of my own light on this idea of having a right path and as we all know all light comes from God. So I hope what I say is inspired from him as well enough to shed some light on it for you.

I remember a quote from Martin Luther King that goes something like this:

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. And then take a step on it and then another step, one step at a time. One can walk over the highest of mountain peaks by taking one small step at a time one after the other. That's all it takes one step at a time and one day at a time."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Is this true, but how do you know your walking on the right staircase? I've heard it said to go and put our ladder against a wall and start to climb it to our successful life but try to only make sure we put our ladder against the right wall that we really want to climb or need to climb. Otherwise we might spend our whole life trying to pursue something we find near the end of our lives we really had very little interest or passion or real love in it at all.

Then is it a matter of following what we want or more seeing that our first steps on the staircase leads to God rather than on our ladder which leans against man's own buildings and structures?

Where is the difference and correct approach to life between these two extremes? The extreme of just wanting to take our correct step on our path to God and that of wanting to be carrying our own ladder with us and climbing it to our own goals in life that we carry it along with us in order to climb our own goals first.

Goals are important as long the balance is there for them to be linked to the overall purpose of your life. This is to return to God and to live a life based on love. The balance between always doing God's work and walking his way and on the stairway to heaven and climbing your own ladder planted against your own desires or passions and goals is indeed a subtle one. There is no difference if while at the same time you are still ascending the staircase to God. If you leave the staircase and start erecting multiple ladders and get distracted by multiple projects and pursuits you will forget the one real purpose of pursuit in our lives of increasing our awareness and consciousness and growing in love and so serving God. Sure you will still grow but you will grow more

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