FOLLOWERS OF THE PATH   Many of us, at some point, have asked ourselves who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? The answers to those questions require us to confront reality and recognize the true path we are on, the conclusion for many of us is disappointment when we assess that we are not on the path to fulfillment; it is sad to admit that we know so much about the lives of others, but we know nothing, or do not want to know about ourselves. These fundamental questions help each of us to responsibly assess our situation and find definitive answers based on that assessment of our reality to guide our present and make our future, not only temporarily, here on earth, but eternally. Life offers various paths or alternatives for reaching fulfillment. Some paths are short but perhaps more dangerous and riskier, others are longer but safe; regardless they both lead us to our purpose. Life really is a continuous search; we often do not know what to look for and we get lost in the labyrinths of the world’s illusions, confused and totally unsure, unable to understand the real meaning of our existence here and now. In Jesus' time, humanity also experienced this. We must keep in mind that every path leads to a destination, even if it is not the one we desire. The book of Proverbs says, “there are ways that seem right, but in the end they lead to death” (Prov. 14:12). At the beginning of His ministry, Jesus was driven by the Spirit into the desert, an inhospitable and arid place where all the imbalances produced in creation by Adam's sin dwell, a place of many temptations and death where Satan and his angels dwell. However, there, Jesus is focused on the Word of God, His Covenant and Law; that is the path He has laid out to seal God's definitive Covenant with humanity. Jesus never allowed His human condition to divert Him from His mission or His purpose. In the midst of that place of death He was strengthened by the Power of the Spirit. In that place of death and sin, Jesus began the true Path, the new Path of Adam, and reopened Paradise to all those who are willing to accept Him as the True Way. We are all walking some sort of a path. I ask you, are you on the right path? This question and its answer should make us aware of the danger of following the wrong path, because we can lose not only our human life, but also Eternal Life, which of course is more valuable than anything in this temporary life. Let us remember that Jesus, in His own words, tells us that He is the Way to the Father, "do not let your hearts be troubled, Believe in God and Believe also in Me. In my Father's house there are many rooms if it were not so I would…