In The Fog

It can creep up on you like a hunter pursuing his prey. You are driving along a road and suddenly the fog envelops your car. You are plunged into the uncomfortable realization that your visibility is severely reduced.

What can you do? If you stop, you run the risk of somebody crashing into the rear end of your car. Continuing on presents some danger, too, but it is usually the only option until you can find a spot where you can get off the road and into safety.

We found ourselves several years ago in a similar situation. We had to catch the ferry to Nova Scotia from Saint John, New Brunswick. We had reservations on the boat and there was no way we could be late. We had to continue on in the fog during the night or we would miss the voyage.

We made it with time to spare. How did I do it? I continued our forward progress, but instead of focussing on the unknown horizon in the fog, I concentrated on staying to the right of the line on the road close to me. I knew as long as I advanced and was to the right of the line I was pretty safe.

Many of you may be in a position in life where you are in a fog. You are surrounded by problems or a difficult situation and your goal in life has vanished into the clouds. Like the driver who is navigating through the fog, you don’t have a clue what is ahead. Stopping isn’t much of an option and there is no safe place to park your problem. Like the driver in the fog, you can still move forward, staying close to the line and staying on course to the right, creeping along day by day or minute by minute. You can have the confidence that you are making progress and that the fog will lift one day and you will be basking in the sunshine.