Escalator of Life

Standing at the bottom, you see a single escalator rising out of the basement and into the light. You know you must get to the top even though it is moving down towards you. So you start to climb, step after step you walk….getting nowhere. So you start running, gaining speed and you’re half way up when you get so tired from your efforts that stop and rest is what you must do. As you rest…back down to the bottom you glide. Nearing the bottom, your strength regained, you take off again skipping a step with each stride. Again, you are frustrated with failure as the physical toll weighs heavy on your body. Again you try, jumping two or three steps at a time, using your arms to pull you greater distances and yet, once again the weakness sets in.

Sometimes we may not realize it…but we are on this escalator. As we try to deal with the struggles that life provides us, the weakness sets in and we begin to glide back down towards the basement where the darkness of anger, depression, and fear reside. It is our ability to pick ourselves up when we fall that guides the light in our lives, that sets us apart. We may never reach the top…does not mean we will stop trying to stand strong in the face of things that are not right.