10 metres at a time

"What the heck am I doing?!" I thought to myself. I was a few hours into a very challenging hike - alone, in the clouds and climbing through a long patch of scree. I could hardly see beyond the next marker and was struggling with the terrain.

I couldn't see the whole picture: the spot in the distance that I was striving toward. Instead, my focus was on making it to the next post, and then the next, and the next after that.

The dark and challenging periods of our lives are much like that hike where we can't see the horizon. We are travelling alone and are surrounded by cloud. The destination seems so far, but then again, we're not entirely sure how far there is to go.

And that's sometimes when we just need to focus in on the next 10 metres. Perhaps it's getting through the next hour or day, perhaps it's trying to walk around the block or pray to the God that you're pretty sure is there.

As long as you're on the right track and can keep taking step after step, eventually you get somewhere and if you were on a good trail, the view is worth the effort.