Wanderers

She wandered. Lost. Confused. Alone. She ached from the cold. It chilled her to the bone. Her eyes could see no color, her heart had stopped feeling what felt like years before. In the scenery surrounding her, she saw nothing. She put one foot in front of the other and that is all she could think of. Move forward, just keep moving forward. She couldn’t stop to look behind her and see how far she had come. She couldn’t glance around her to see the joy of what was, she could barely make out the path ahead. The elements had beaten her down. All she saw was the ground beneath her feat. All she felt was the hollow, bone chilling cold, all she thought was “keep moving forward, just keep moving.” So many people in our world live their lives this way. Walking alone, not seeing how far they’ve come, not looking up to enjoy their present, not feeling they have any choice but to keep moving. Unaware of where they are going or why. Feeling like every step is a struggle, every day meaningless, every step forward, feels like three steps backwards because they aren’t really moving. Their bodies move like drones coming from somewhere unknown, going to somewhere unknown. But their souls, their spirits, their hearts lay dormant. Waiting for someone to walk beside them, to guide them towards a path that has meaning. To teach them to see in color. To feel emotion. To speak. To awaken their hearts and give their lives meaning. It is our job to find these souls, these wanderers, moving through life without hope or meaning. To open their hearts and invite them to feel. To help them walk a path towards spirituality. Without God, we are all wanderers. All going different directions for different reasons. Invite them to walk your path with you for if we all walk towards God, this loneliness and desperation we feel will disappear. Colors will enter our vision, our chins will lift up and see the world and beauty surrounding us, see that we aren’t and never have been alone, see that life can have meaning.