#97 "The Rut" By Susan Pearl

When we lived in the country it was obvious that road conditions played a big part in our daily comings and goings and safety in our travels.
One thing that reallly made travel difficult were deep ruts in the roads.
If the conditions were just right, like after a gentle rain, the road was easy to make ruts in with the vehicles.
However, if a big heavy truck would drive on the same road under the same conditions the ruts made by the big truck were incredibly deep.
And those were the ruts a person could easily get stuck in, get helplessly high centered, and have difficulty in the journey.
In fact, ruts of that degree really only allowed for the one way to get through and that was the way of  manuevering through the rough rut.
It was better to reroute our trips to avoid the deep ruts until the road was maintained to be smooth again.
So it is with life,
If the conditions are right an event can make a rut become a part of our daily routine conditions,
Also, the more tramatic and heavier the event the deeper the rut,
It is best to reroute our thoughts to avoid a thought pattern that can become stuck in a rut or have to constantly manuever through only one way of thinking,
Life is a journey and it is to our best interest to avoid getting stuck in a rut over and over again,
To reroute our thoughts for a better and smoother journey will keep our options and choices open and add to our quality of life.
Even though the rerouting may seem to take longer and be a longer way of doing things it will be less stressful, less difficult to handle, and less struggle for us to reach our destination and that will also add to our quality of life.