Several years ago I had a conversation with a classmate. She shared with me that she felt lost.
She began by sharing with me the plans that she previously had. They were very clear and defined
She went on to describe the place in her life where she was at the moment, and with tears in her eyes, struggling to speak, she expressed out loud (more to herself than to me), that she felt lost. She wanted to find the place where she wanted and longed to be. And that place was far away, she didn’t know how to get there.
In the book of Genesis, there is a question that God asks Adam that confused me for a long time. God asks him, where are you? (Gen 3, 9)
It’s not that God didn’t know where he was. Maybe it was that Adam needed to acknowledge, and express out loud, where he was.
Do you know where you are at in your life?
Personally, that was a question that a few years ago was difficult for me to answer. I had to be brave and honest with myself. My mind knew where I was at, and how I got there, but my heart didn’t.
At that time, I could understand from experience. The words of that classmate who told me, “I feel lost.” It was no longer imagining what she felt. I went through my version of what it is to feel lost.
When driving a car, many of us use a GPS, which helps us orient ourselves, especially in new places. But what can we do when the soul’s GPS loses signal?
How many of us turn to contemplate our own history, and discover that the path we have walked turned out to be different from the one we planned at the time.
When driving our car and taking a different route than the one indicated by the GPS, it automatically shows a new route. But that is not what happens in the heart. The process of finding our place, unlike unlike a GPS, is not automatic, it requires us to pay attention to our interior.
The good news is that God is also within us.
By strengthening our relationship with God in our interior, God finds us, and as we meet God, we can find ourselves.
When years have gone by without strengthening that inner relationship with God, the process may seem theoretical, rootless, or “up in the air,” but it doesn’t have to be that way.
God knows where you are. When you find God within you, God tells you where you are.
When you find that lost part of yourself, you find yourself, and God celebrates, because you were lost, and you have found yourself.
You are the treasure, and you have been found..
P.S. For you who seek to find God within you, these days the doors of the workshop “Finding the lost treasure” open, which has nothing to do with pirates, Send me a direct message to sign up for this workshop at no cost. We will rejoice together by finding the treasure.
