The Roads To Nowhere

In a democracy, we all have the privilege of choosing our path forward. Wealthy or not, each of us can choose between two opposite pathways. I call them both the roads to nowhere.

In modern societies, the vast majority of people are familiar with the first and most common road to nowhere: the rat race. Though people work hard to reach their dreams, too many eventually realize their aspirations haven’t materialized and they find themselves on the jam-packed, gloomy road to nowhere. Here, they face the dark reality that things aren’t likely to look up for them any time soon. Their life has evolved into scraping by.

Now imagine the other Road to Nowhere where there’s no need to push ourselves up high onto new crests of worthiness and, fortunately, is devoid of any tragic plummet into irrelevance.

This Road to Nowhere does not take you in circles or trap you in an endless maze. It’s about having an adventure right where you are. But most people never choose this Road. Most are talked out of it.

In some cultures around the world, this second Road to Nowhere is known for its allure since much has been said about it. There’s a belief that it’s a life of pure majesty, but this is a myth since few people understand what it means to travel upon this “inner” fabled Road to Nowhere.

Many people claim to have explored the depths of their souls along the Road to Nowhere, and have even written books about it—though they’ve never set foot upon its curious pathway. But that doesn’t matter since the truth is always a matter of opinion these days.

It can be said that the Road to Nowhere is a lonely, forsaken road—much like the world we’ve been living in—not because it’s anything like this world, but precisely because it’s the unnerving opposite.

It can further be explained as a deep calling to walk in lockstep with an unseen force, a God that penetrates each of our moments along the Road with a reasonable but often yet-to-be-understood purpose—much like the invisible synchronized functions of our body down to a cellular level.

This other road, quirky as it is, initiates us into a Garden of Eden where there’s fellowship with God, and joy in following his will. Imagine if your body didn’t fellowship with its DNA. That would spell trouble.

In daily life, such collaborations with heaven may be simple things, but over time they amount to a deeper faith and a broader understanding of what heaven truly is and how it wishes us to coexist in this life.

The world is fractured now. Your personal heroes are your neighbor’s villains, and vice versa. This is because too many have forsaken the Road to Nowhere as if it were never real to begin with—but it is very real, desirous of penetrating your consciousness and taking the lead in every moment. This makes it a scary choice.

Fear is why too many good people push aside their inner voice, choosing instead to adore the profane absurdities of countless outer voices. While such entertainment may excite and comfort us, too many people believe everything they hear, and slander and hate surely won’t open the gates of heaven.

Life is richer, more rewarding, and more suspenseful on this other Road to Nowhere. You don’t need a map or spaceship to get there. You don’t need to go anywhere. In fact, you can sit still and accept its grace.

Just remember the word, “no/where” and view it differently as “now/here”—that’s all it takes. The Road to Nowhere is the Road to Now/here, or being in the here and now, where the heavenly realm can tempt you into accepting the unknown fullness of the person you were ordained to be.