Lost and Found Department

The lost and found is a place where we have gone to either drop something off that is not ours or to look for something that is. What about the lost and found of our lives; lost loves and found ones, lost jobs and found ones, lost friends and found ones I could go on. In every case there is a change that occurs in our life do to either the loss or the finding of something else. Sometimes there is sorrow that accompanies the loss and yet in the spring time of life there comes a renewal of new finds yet to be. In the saying "When one door closes another opens" we can see how the perfection in the universe conspires to give us exactly what we want. So, the lost and found department is always at work 24/7.

What Is Your Epitaph?

What is your epitaph? When I think about the last thing that I would like to be remembered for. I think about what I have done to leave a mark or to be significant in this world. Have I done anything profound? Have I touched others lives? Will I be missed or noticed when I am gone? I think about even the littlest of things, such as taking the hand of a child and leading her/him across the street. Or, giving a dollar to the homeless man sitting on the corner. Even though I might not have saved a nation from annihilation I have saved one dog. I might not have feed millions but I have feed one. When I think about my life I realize that I have touched many lives and they have touched mine and I am so much richer for it....

What's the worst that can happen?

RejectionI can truly identify with the strength of this word. So many times in my own life I wouldn't dare to say or do something because of the fear of being rejected. Sometimes just the thought of the possibility would hold me back from pursuing something that I truly wanted. It was from an experience or two in my past that created the belief and held me in captivity. What's the worst that can happen? This is the question that I finally discovered helped me to break out of my fear. When I started to look at both senerios I realized that no matter what the outcome I would still be OK, it wasn't going to crush my spirit, though it might hurt for awhile I was going to survive.

Alone

When I look down the trail of my life I pause.
For I see those dark shadows by the side of the road.
Why would I take that path,knowing it will lead me away from home.
As I look farther ahead I see a place of comfort there.
Only through the dark can I come to the light.
And so I walk this path,
Alone.
Insecure, afraid..
But trusting in the outcome.
Knowing the other side is there for me and I am with my God.
I am truly not alone...