Tunnel

Just when I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel extends itself by another 20 miles; just when I think it's all almost over, I find out that it's really only just beginning. I feel like I'm on a treadmill on days like today. Just when I thought I was just about done with this stretch of the journey, this chapter in the story, I realize that reaching the end of that chapter was an idol and that I've been chasing nothing except my own false worship. My little golden calf crumbles like sand falling through my fingers.