When we were on holidays some years ago we came across an old cattle watering site. There was a very, very long concrete trough which could water hundreds of cattle at a time.
The other day I was thinking of that trough as a parable for the way we live our lives. We come to a challenge.That is our trough. We can power through, which might be scary but is soon over and we get out on the other side, wet but ready to walk on firmer ground. and never see that trough again.But we have other options. We can get in then decide to stay on the safe side where we’ve already been. We can get out and walk up a bit further, only to find the trough is still there and the distance to swim is the same. Even worse, we can swim along the length of it and stay in that trough forever.
It’s an interesting analogy for the way we live our lives, isn’t it?