3-2=+1

I read a book a great number of years ago called Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward. It was about the trials and tribulations of life. But, as I think of the title, I see that the book is really about forward progress. The net result is still a postiive one step (3-2). It's a great principle in life that Rome was not built in a day or that we can only take one step at a time. As convoluted as the picture of life is at times, it's refreshing to know that progress is made in the smallest units - a step at a time. Even if the path beneath our feet seems to have reversed, it's just the two steps backwards before we are propelled ahead 3 steps. Backwards is merely a snapshot. It really is a two-step prelude to the forward three steps that follow. And forward progress means we are on the road to somewhere, the road toward our goals.