“Journeys,” writes Lawrence Durrell, “like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.”
Each of us begins our life journey as immature infants. We grow to an age of understanding; we grapple with God and man. As creations formed in the image of God, we exercise free will to deny, ignore, or accept Truth. And all the while, we follow a path God knew we would choose.
And as we walk, our life-paths cross others. This is the story of one path and those that intersected it.
The path of the Truth Teller.
“Make us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be contented with half truth when whole truth can be won. Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when right and truth are in jeopardy.”
—From the “Cadet Prayer” repeated every
Sunday in chapel services at West Point