Detecting the Path

Death on the River Walk, by Carolyn Hart, is a Henrie O mystery, published in 1999, featuring Hart's retired Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins.  In this story, Henrie travels to San Antonio, trying to help her old friend locate the friend's missing granddaughter.  At one point her old friend tells her:

"I believe the good God sends us not only angels--often, when we are unaware, he sends us messagers when there is a path we must take, no matter how hard and difficult." (p. 68)

I took this to mean we are often given help in our lives when we need it..  As the saying goes, when the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.  However, we must be open and willing to listen to the teacher.

Someone else has observed when God closes a door, he opens a window...but, in the meantime, it's awfully dark in the hallway. 

It requires a great leap of faith to take that first step when it's only a small voice inside you that seems to whisper, "This way...follow me."

 medieval steps and passageway
Serres, France