It is simply a fact that if you climb to the top of a ridge, you will see the sun come up sooner than if you wait in the valley. But, of course, you will have to do your climbing in the dark.
When have you dared to head into the dark in order to make your way toward the light?
In mid-life, after I finished study, student teaching. and graduation I was in the process of interviewing for a job. I boarded the train to a small city in Southern Kansas in order to find out about a job as an elementary art consultant in a public school system. All looked inviting but it was a small city, rather far removed from big city opportunities. Although I was offered the job, I declined and accepted anther one semester position at a junior high school in California. Once there, I hated the job, the location and even the climate! I was in a precarious situation: I called the Kansas superintendent and humbly asked if the position there was still open and could I be considered. Imagine my joy when he was able to tell me that the job could be mine. So that next fall I began a job that lasted almost seven years and which I enjoyed more that any other job I have ever had. The city smallness caused me to leave (with a good future) but that time spent in Kansas after a dark period of uncertainty became one of the most pleasurable experiences of my life.