Dan: These are thoughts for a possible opening.
This story of a Marathon runner who takes wrong turn at end of race.

http://tv.gawker.com/#!5724891/japanese-runner-makes-wrong-turn-at-the-end-of-a-marathon

Psalms 119:32  I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

God is the one that has to give us strength to keep after him. 

The farther we get into God the less traffic and trails there are. There is only one that has gone before (Jesus)

We have to rely on Him to be our direction and compass.

We can't stop and waste the calling we have on our lives and all the work.

Robert Scott in 1912 lead an expedition to be the first to reach the South pole, although he was bested by a Norwegian expedition lead by Roald Amundsen that got there 2 weeks before. 

Scott and his crew were frozen, exhausted, diappointed, and suffering from scurvy as they began their return trip. By February 17, one crew member, Seaman Edgar Evan died. Other members of the expedition began to die, and they set up their last camp on March 11, 1912 only 11 miles from One Ton Depot, where they could have gotten supplies. A raging blizzard kept them from the depot, and the remaining crew died at this camp. They were found dead in ther sleeping bags by a rescue party on November 12, 1912.

We know that we have help as long as we go to the source of our help. Even that runner had help he just didn't look at the race official.  Isa 30:21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

Ps 145:18 The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth.