Spared Sufferings - Personal blog of Trisha Rapley, Australian Author.

They told me

The easy road would spare me,

less resistance,

less bruising,

less chance of falling

into the teeth of the world.

But the easy road

carried its own sharpness—

a slow, quiet erosion

of everything I was meant to become.

Comfort became a cage,

Predictability is a tether.

I walked its smooth path,

Yet I felt my spirit dragging

as though chained

to every dream I didn’t chase.

The road destined for me—

the steep one,

the trembling one,

the one lit by a fire I once feared—

stayed lit behind the horizon,

calling.

There is a grief,

In knowing you avoided the mountain

meant to shape you.

A grief

in avoiding storms

that were meant to baptise you

into your own strength.

But there is also grace—

The mountain is still there.

The storm is still there.

The road carved for your feet

still remembers your name.

The easy road taught me

What comfort costs.

Jesus teaches me

What courage restores.

Amen...

Spared Sufferings - Personal blog of Trisha Rapley, Australian Author.

Spared Sufferings - Personal blog of Trisha Rapley, Australian Author.