From wander to wonder

 

What do you do

when you wander aimlessly,

and the fire you once carried has been quenched?

When you are misunderstood — even by your own —

rejected and cast away.

When you feel lonely and isolated,

as though you don’t belong

or cannot truly connect.

When deep inside you feel empty and spent,

tired, yet moving from one day to the next.

When your past mistakes haunt you,

when an enemy constantly attacks and never backs down,

when a world relentlessly tempts you

and whispers that you are not enough.

When your thoughts, meant to be a friend,

become a foe instead —

haunting you with a past that stains your heart

a scarlet red.

Meet me, Great I Am,

in my wandering through this wilderness

as You met Moses.

Transform my “I am’s.”

Where the mundane turns to musing,

and despair turns to delight.

Where wandering turns to wonder,

and wilderness turns to worship.

Show me a bush burning, yet not consumed —

reminding me that You have interwoven

Your life and breath into mine.

All the fiery trials

that should have consumed me —

yet did not.

Your love and Spirit

have kept my heart burning,

yet not consumed —

refining the dust

into an imperishable faith.

Through pain and suffering

that will not destroy me,

except to be consummated by the Lord,

the all-consuming Fire.