What path will you choose?

Working at the juvenile center I often ask my youth "what path will you choose" the straight course, with a couple bumps along the way, the path that takes you into the dark woods, the one over the mountains, throught the waters, or maybe you will even wander off path. Many have ideas of where they want to get and what they want but pay no mind to the path that will lead them there. Well 1st thing I think of is the song by Miley Cyrus "Its the Climb" but at work we use the story to ithaca. Okay so if you know what either of these mean it talks about how yes where we are going is important and what we want has meaning but its the journey that gets us there that has such great meaning, the journey molds us who we are is because of where we have come through. There is one kid particularly from the beginning of my time at the juvenile center that I remember having this conversation with, intact we sat down and drew this cheesy may with a castle on the right side of the paper and on the left, where he was there, we then drew a bunch of paths and on them put what he could do, or if he stayed on the same path he was choosing, or made changes. At the end where the castle we listed his dreams and goals. Now I would like to tell you that he is living his dreams and the path he chose that night he stuck with. Well he didnt. For a while he did, he was doing great, I would hear of his progress and I was proud of him. But some where along the way he wandered off that path. One might say he began a path of destruction... Does this mean his journey is over, he can't reach his castle, can't get to ithaca??? Or does this just mean that his castle may change a bit, but he can still get back on path to his castle of dreams and goals, certainly he can, he may have come off course, taken a path that was not in his plans but his story is not over. So at times you may feel you have fallen off path or maybe your so set on your idea of exactly how your journey should look that you don't trust God and his journey for you and in doing so that's when you make your own path, fall off track and the journey changes. He (God) has chosen the perfect path for you, sometimes it doesn't match your view of what you feel it should look like but trust him and follow his path. Psalms 33:8 The Lord says "I will guide the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. Psalms 25:8 The Lord is good and does what is right; he shows the proper path to those who go astray.