The Straight And Narrow

A young boy was walking down a long stretch of road he looked around and saw a corn field freshly planted and he liked what he saw so he kept on walking, as he walked the field began growing and the sprouts was coming out of the ground and the boy finding his feet and legs were growing stronger he began to run. The corn kept growing and it was up to his hip but the tips of it were falling in a clumsy way to the ground and the boy was finding his body felt odd and he too was becoming clumsy but he kept going. He looked around and saw the corn was growing tall and so was his stride got longer but his body was still odd to him his face was breaking out and hair was growing on his face undaunted he kept his pace. The corn began to grow it's ears and was becoming mature and the boy realized he had become a young man, and found himself responsible for himself but he kept walking along but this was a different kind of walk it was a confident and reliant walk that he knew he was living free, with liberty and he would do anything to keep what he had found now. He kept walking and found that with the corn rip and nearly ready to pick that he was at the height of his physic and the life was flowing through him strong and true never like never before, he felt he could take on the world and win in all these things he found something that was even stronger than himself, his savior Jesus and asked him for forgiveness of his sins and the felt that walking was easier now than it had been before. When the first shade of brown hit the corn and the corn was beginning to harden to become seed the man realized that the hair in his face was turning grey along with the hair on his head, his feet were beginning to hurt and so was his back but he kept walking. When the corn was nearly ready to be harvested the man realized he was old and he could see the end of the highway and for a moment he turned around and saw at the top of the hill his mother and father, and along the way he saw his family and the wife that made him feel free, he saw his children when he realized that was when he felt the best and when he found his faith, he saw his grandchildren and knew that when his hair was grey and his feet began to hurt but they were the reason that he kept going. All along the way there had always been two foot prints one right next to each other one was his and the other he knew was his Lord, and that made him very happy because he had been with all the while and he was never alone. The road was long and there was different ways he could have gone that lead in a different path, but he stayed with this one and there was still a long ways to go but that was alright he could take a slow and steady pace and in good time he would get there. When the corn was being harvested the old man looked up saw his Lord was waiting on him he was happy to see the end of the road because he had done all that he could do to make his family happy after so many years working in and on this corn field, and when he got there his mother and father was waiting for him with the Lord he had made his journey and his rewards were waiting on him for a good and faithful life.