Ninety Three Million Miles

The average distance from the earth to the sun is ninety three million miles. If you were to take every highway, freeway, expressway, every street, every toll road and back road and dirt road from Nova Scotia to Buenos Aires, from Amsterdam to Johannesburg, from Madrid to Macau, from Seattle to Miami, and lay every single road in the whole world end to end, you'd make it about forty million miles, but you still wouldn't get even halfway to the sun. We can go everywhere, we can try everything, we can gather up all of the wisdom and intelligence, all light, every spark of creativity, every bright idea, all love and compassion and kindness and generosity, every single experience, every moment of joy and bliss and ecstasy, every single moment of peace or clarity from every last person and corner of the world, and we still wouldn't even get halfway back to our Father in Heaven, or experience half of the joy and the peace and the wisdom that He offers us. We can be in the world and walk down a lot of roads, spend a lot of time and cover a lot of distance, but it's not going to get us where deep in our souls we know we want to go. We can try to find happiness in the world, but all of the happiness in the world put together is not half so great as our Father promises us. We can look for peace in the world, but all of the peace in the world put together is not half so great as the peace our Father offers us. We can keep trying to go down blind alleys and dead ends, but we're far better off abandoning our fruitless efforts to find peace and joy and wisdom in the world, and instead walking the one true Way to everything that the Father has.