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Having a pilot can determine the course of your life, having the right can make or break it.

A pilot is a person qualified and authorized to drive a vehicle: a plain, a car, a train and everything in the between. Now, if we think of ourselves as a vehicle, metaphorically, guided by a driver, who can change depending on the specific time and phase of our lives, we realize how crucial it is for us to have a capable driver, that will bring us from place A to place B.

When it’s your first time taking a bus to a specific destination, you usually not only rely on the driver to safely brings you to your destination but you’re also most likely going to ask the driver some direction, like the right bus stance to get off. I remember one time I had to go to a job interview and the place was far from home. So, I took the train and then the bus; when I got on the bus, I asked the driver the number of stops it will take before mine, because it was my first time taking that bus, I didn’t know the area, so I was cautious and asked him right the way some quick info and he told me he would notify me when we arrived at my stop so I could get off. So, I sat on the front seat, near him waiting for a sign form his side, but that didn’t happen. After a while I approached him and asked him “sir, are we still far from my stop?” because in my head I knew it was taking too long and he said “I forgot, we already passed the stop you were supposed to get off”. So, I had to get off on the next stop, walk to another bus stop, wait for “an eternity” for another bus that was going to opposite direction, hopped on it, went back, got off at the right bus stop this time and I walked to the agency office, where I had my interview. I was late but thankfully, everything went fine.

When we’re little, our parents, family are our “main guides”, we view the world thought them, they lead us towards adulthood and their choices are decisive for what we will become. So, it’s very important to have the right person in your corner, since childhood; it doesn’t necessarily need to be a family member, it can be a teacher at school, a friend, your neighbours, somebody that see your potential and inspire you to move forward.

As human beings, we are made up of a body, a soul, which includes our physical and emotional impulses, and a spirit. Since we are also spiritual beings, it’s essential to have a spiritual guide, which to some extent may be our parents or a relative, depending on the family we’re born into, a pastor, priest, etc. But it’s important to emphasize who our primary spiritual guide should be: God, our creator and comforter.

We live in an age of humanitarian confusion because the more our societies continue to disintegrate, the more our identities crumble into an abyss where the line of eligibility is increasingly shifting, making us think we can do everything and go anywhere on our own, without consequences. In this social, spiritual, political, and economic fog of fragmentation, turning to the spiritual guide who is God helps us remain anchored in values such as love, joy, fidelity, wisdom, brotherhood, respect, and mutual support – elements we need to guide societies toward the salvation of souls and inner peace.

There are many testimonies of how God works in the lives of His believers, how He takes them from one place to another, physically and mentally, how He brings them to the right work environment or manifests change in their current one, how He has shaped friendships and lives. I think the important thing about having God as our pilot is that, even if we are blind to the future, He has a 360-degree vision of the past, present, and future; He knows what awaits us and how to guide us through it. This doesn’t mean it will be a path without obstacles, because if you think about it, a life without challenges would be meaningless, without growth, without learning, which undermines the idea of life itself, as something that changes, that evolves. What it does mean is that you will have a guide who will protect and reassure you in every situation you encounter.

Life is a journey that needs the right pilot to reach our destination; the wrong one might not get us to our destination, lengthen the journey, take us to the wrong place, physically and mentally, or even lead us to total destruction.