October 9, 2020

My Journey to God

When I Get to the Crossroads

There are many crossroads in one’s life. You know—the point where opportunities open up, along with situations. A decision needs to be made: do you go to your left and see what lays in that direction, or do you go to the right and explore the unknown that awaits you there? Or do you just go straight ahead and keep doing what you’re doing and most likely get the same results?

As I look back over my life, there have been many crossroads. If I had taken a different path at any of these crossroads, I know things would have turned out differently. What I do not know is if they would have turned out any better. Only the God of the Universe knows this. So, for me to linger on any of those unanswerable questions of yesteryear is nothing more than an invitation for self-pity, despair and depression. I need to live in today. As St. Teresa of Calcutta once said, “Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today, let us begin.”

It is my sincere hope and prayer that when I get to the crossroads of my final path in this life, it will be a path where my Creator will embrace me with all my faults and imperfections and say, “Welcome Home, son!”

By Natalie Hoefer
 

(John McMullen is a member of St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Spencer.) †

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