In the dark of the night; there remains the stars to guide people home/ none more important than the north star; because it sits “about 7 times the distance, in a straight line; from”, the top of the farthest line/ from the handle in the big dipper. Which can nearly always be found. But if there are clouds in the sky, there is no direction; because it is obscured by things we cannot see through. So we must wait, for the sun to rise; to define a line we might take back to where we begin.
In that description of living in time; is the understanding that we must recognize the direction of our lives is determined by what we accept as true. The evidence supports a decision based upon knowledge, and not belief which can take you far from where you began. Sometimes knowledge cannot be found/ and we must wait, until the truth of a direction we do understand begins.
Such is the reality of our living; and everything is dependent upon knowing the direction you wish to go. Which requires the evidence of where you have been; because less than that is a belief/ which turns into a want, which leads in circles.
I was once in the woods in a blizzard; “a lovely experience”/ until I realized I was in fact lost; because I had not paid attention to life or direction. So the simple method was to retrace my steps/ but the snow had blocked them out. I because I knew this was a limited cost of being lost/ I decided to search as others search: which is to believe, that I could and would recognize the places I had been by the trees. I walked in a circle/ not where I intended to go. The lesson is: not to be distracted, even by beautiful things/ but use your brain to discover and remember what you could identify as real. Such as a river runs through it/ and I was back to safety, soon after, that was found.
It is not the darkness, where fear is born. It does not lead you, unless you choose that. Instead the path less taken, has numerous elements of danger which you cannot see in the darkness; and that is where fear is born. Finding failure in the decisions that you made. The spiritual world is not unlike the darkness: if you accept the evidence of truth, and let truth lead; along the path of love is where your heart chooses to go. The search has many blessings along the way. But if you “believe” you know, and let want guide your path in the spiritual world/ it will fail you, and tragedies shall occur; “even to you”. Because it is no game. Learn the elements of truth, trust, hope, and love; because these are the direction of your heart. And it is your heart that summons the courage to be brave, where values and respect are formed.