The Road Goes Ever On...

Over the past few months I have come to realize how true Tolkin's "The Road Goes Ever On" is. For those of you who are not familiar with it:

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
~ JRR Tolkin

A few months ago, I did not want "the road to go ever on" but now, as Bilbo said: "I think I'm quite ready for another adventure!" I intend to go where ever this road called life may take me, "pursuing it with eager feet".
The song Mountain of God by Third Day has caught my attention over the past months and I realized that it really resounded within me. But considering all that has happened to come to this point, these parts now carry a great deal of potency to me...

Even though the journey's long
And I know the road is hard
Well, the One who's gone before me
He will help me carry on
After all that I've been through
Now I realize the truth
That I must go through the valley
To stand upon the mountain of God...

...Sometimes I think of where it is I've come from
And the things I've left behind
But of all I've had, what I possessed
Nothing can quite compare
With what's in front of me...

The journey is long, and the road is hard, hard times come and go and through it all God is there and if I press on I'll find myself on the "mountain". Soon I will be heading off down the road to sunny California with my family, where we will be starting a new phase in our lives. I don't think I'll meet any elves or dwarves but one never knows what they will encounter when they set out on an adventure.

I decided to start this blog so that people can keep track of me, hopefully through the rest of my life. As I continue on the road that has been assigned to me I will do my very best to keep this updated.